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Experimental Outdoor Visible Light Data Communication Systems with Optical Filter

광필터를 이용한 실험적 실외 가시광 통신 시스템

  • Kim, Yong-Hyeon (Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Pukyong University) ;
  • Chung, Yeon-Ho (Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Pukyong University)
  • Received : 2014.05.10
  • Accepted : 2014.06.16
  • Published : 2014.08.31

Abstract

An experimental outdoor optical wireless data communication system with an optical filter in the presence of sunlight or artificial light is presented. For the efficient blocking of light noise outdoors, we employ an optical filter made of microlouver film on the top of the photo diode. This filter is designed to block any light noise incident from an angle higher than $30^{\circ}$ on the assumption that light noise does not face the photo diode horizontally. Outdoor experiments daytime with the optical filtering have been conducted. The experimental results demonstrate that the optical filter effectively blocks nearly all light noise incident from the specified angle or higher and more than 90% of the transmitted data packets are successfully received. The proposed outdoor visible light data communication can thus facilitate a practical free space outdoor optical wireless data transmission.

본 논문은 태양광 혹은 인공광이 존재하는 외부 환경에서 광필터를 적용한 실험적 실외 광무선 데이터 통신 시스템을 제안한다. 광잡음의 효과적인 차단을 위해 마이크로루버 필름을 사용한 광필터를 광다이오드에 직접 적용하였으며 잡음광이 광다이오드에 정면으로 입사하지 않는다는 가정하에 입사각 30도를 초과하는 잡음광을 차단하도록 설계하였다. 제안하는 시스템을 낮시간 실외에서 데이터 전송을 통해 검증하였는데 지정한 입사각 혹은 그 이상의 입사 잡음광에 대해 거의 완벽하게 차단할 수 있었으며 전송된 패킷데이터의 90%이상을 성공적으로 수신하였다. 본 제안 시스템은 향후 실외 자유공간 광무선 데이터 전송에 효과적으로 사용될 수 있을 것이다.

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