Beam-Steered Optical Wireless Communication for Industry 4.0.

Autor: Koonen, Ton, Mekonnen, Ketemaw Addis, Cao, Zizheng, Huijskens, Frans, Pham, Ngoc Quan, Tangdiongga, Eduward
Zdroj: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics; Nov/Dec2021, Vol. 27 Issue 6, p1-10, 10p
Abstrakt: By means of narrow 2D-steerable infrared beams, interference-free individual wireless connections to densely-spaced devices in industry 4.0 settings can be made. Beam steering by fiber-fed passive diffractive beam steering modules and wavelength-tunable transceivers located in a separate controller location enable readily scalable connectivity to many devices and their nomadic mobility. To accommodate the dynamics in industry 4.0 settings, self-calibrating localization of the devices by means of retro-reflecting corner cube foils and beam scanning is demonstrated, and a low-complexity broadband wide field-of-view optical wireless receiver is presented, based on a matrix of photodiodes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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