Experimental Comparison of PAM and CAP Modulation for Visible Light Communication Under Illumination Constraints

Priol, Robin Le; Hélard, Maryline; Haese, Sylvain; Roy, S.

doi:10.1109/jphot.2022.3148467

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“…LiFiMAX uses carrierless amplitude and phase (CAP) modulation, one of the efficient spectral methods to overcome modulation bandwidth challenges in VLC. CAP modulation has seen extensive research interest in VLC applications as a result of its excellent spectral efficiency as well as its simplicity [52]. The transmitted signal can be expressed by,…”

Section: B Vlc Communication Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pseudo-Passive Time-of-Flight Imaging: Simultaneous Illumination, Communication, and 3D Sensing

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3D Time-of-Flight (ToF) cameras have recently received a lot of attention due to their wide range of applications. Despite remarkable advancements in ToF imaging, state-of-theart ToF cameras are still afflicted by the power hungriness of their illumination sources. To tackle this problem, we exploited existing lighting infrastructure, that ensures the ubiquitous presence of modulated light sources in indoor spaces, which serve as opportunity illuminators. We explored the bistatic geometry for passive imaging using the pulse-based ToF approach. Our work is inspired by the recently introduced visible light communication (VLC) or light-fidelity (Li-Fi) infrastructure. VLC allows the infrastructure to provide indoor simultaneous illumination, communication, and sensing (SICS). To this end, we designed a bistatic geometry for the purpose of attaining passive 3D imaging. Such capabilities are achieved by exploiting the pulse shape of the autocorrelation function of real optical signals generated by VLC/Li-Fi modules (e. g., OpenVLC and LiFiMAX). We demonstrated passive imaging by means of matched filtering. In this work, we also studied different sampling strategies in the time shift domain, including uniform, random, and sparse rulers, which is another step forward towards preserving high depth accuracy with a minimal number of measurements. The proposed methodology achieved successful depth reconstruction with negligible rootmean-square-error (RMSE) for the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the measurements. Parametric models such as Gaussian and sum-of-sines are used to characterize the cross-correlation functions and allow for robust parametric depth retrieval from a few measurements. Moreover, we attained 20 mm worst-case error for a target at 25 cm. The experiment proved that the bistatic passive depth reconstruction is feasible.

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Section: B Vlc Communication Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%