A Long-Distance Underwater Wireless Optical Link Enabled by a Solar Array With a Baseline Compensator

Autor: Zhijian Tong, Xingqi Yang, Yunhai Gao, Hao Zhang, Yufan Zhang, Xiyin Wang, Jing Xu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: IEEE Photonics Journal, Vol 15, Iss 3, Pp 1-8 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1943-0655
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2023.3264445
Popis: In this paper, a self-designed solar cell-based optical detector is proposed and demonstrated in a long-distance underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) link. Benefitting from a large detection area, the detector could successfully capture optical signals with a received power density of 5.62 $\bf{\mu W/c}\mathbf{m}^\mathbf{2}$. To resist the baseline drift caused by the low-frequency cut-off of the system, an envelope detector-based baseline compensator is proposed. Comparing with digital solutions, the proposed compensator could be established in analog domain with common electronic components. With the compensator, a frequency domain equalizer (FDE) and a maximum ratio combing (MRC) algorithm, an 18 Mbps non-return-to-zero (NRZ) on-off keying (OOK) modulated link over an 80 m underwater channel is finally achieved. The proposed baseline compensator could compensate the low-frequency components effectively with low cost. Moreover, under a strong ambient light of approximately 1200 lux, the performance of the link shows little degradation. Our work shows a potential solution of long-distance UWOC system with ambient light tolerance, which is compatible with practical environment.
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