Distortion managed directly modulated on-off keying signal transmission for 10 Gbps visible light communications using electrical filtration

Abstract In this research, a communication system that uses visible light as a carrier and is designed for high-throughput interior applications. In order to lower the overall system cost, this work uses intensity modulation at the transmitter and direct detection with electrical filtering at the receiver. Various low-pass filtration techniques (Gaussian, Butterworth, Bessel, and Chebyshev) have been proposed in his paper to mitigate the effect of channel distortion in visible light communication (VLC) systems. The achieved transmission range is up to 3 m in addition to the supported data rate of 10 Gbps with a bit error rate of less than 10−9. Simulations are carried out using optisystem software that includes PRBS OOK optical signal generation at LED output in the transmitter, VLC channel, and APD with LPF in the receiver.