Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology

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Performance Investigation of Visible Light Communication Using Super Bright White LED and Fresnel Lens

조명용 고출력 백색 LED와 프레넬 렌즈를 이용한 가시광 통신 성능연구

  • Kim, Min-Soo (Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Korea Maritime and Ocean University) ;
  • Sohn, Kyung-Rak (Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Korea Maritime and Ocean University)
  • Received : 2014.08.22
  • Accepted : 2014.12.26
  • Published : 2015.01.31
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Abstract

White light-emitting diode (WLED) is growing interest in using both illumination and communications. This paper reports visible light communication (VLC) composed of a super bright white light-emitting diode, low cost commercial photo-diode and a Fresnel lens. LED driver is consisted of the power MOSFET and MOSFET driver that switches the LED on and off. The modulation bandwidth of the LED used was determined to be 8 MHz. However, it was possible to communicate up to 1 Mbps under illumination of 500 lx because of the weak signal power and a low spectral sensitivity of the SHF213 as a PIN photodiode. In order to enhance the system bandwidth, the LED light was focused on the PIN photodiode by use of the Fresnel lens. As a result of that, visible light link was operated up to modulation bandwidth of the LED. The signal to noise ratio can be improved by 40 dB using an optical concentration at the receiver.

백색 발광 다이오드는 조명과 통신이 동시에 가능하여 많은 주목을 받고 있다. 본 논문에서는 고출력 백색 LED와 저가형 광 다이오드, 프레넬 렌즈로 구성된 가시광 통신의 특성을 연구하였다. LED 구동회로는 고전력 MOSFET과 MOSFET 전용 구동칩을 사용하여 LED가 고속으로 온오프 되게 스위칭 하였다. 사용한 LED의 대역폭은 8 MHz로 측정되었다. 그러나 실내 조명환경을 고려한 500 lx 조도 하에서 통신 속도는 PIN 광 다이오드인 SFH213의 낮은 스펙트럼 감도와 낮은 신호전력으로 인해 1 Mbps까지만 가능하였다. 시스템 대역폭을 확장하기 위하여 프레넬 렌즈를 적용한 경우 수신단의 PIN 광 다이오드에 LED의 집광된 광 전력이 입사되도록 하여 LED의 대역폭까지 변조될 수 있었다. 프레넬 렌즈에 의한 신호대 잡음비는 40 dB 이상 향상되었다.

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