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| Preface | p. xv |
| Authors | p. xix |
| List of Figures | p. xxiii |
| List of Tables | p. xxxvii |
| Abbreviations | p. xxxix |
| Introduction: Optical Wireless Communication Systems | p. 1 |
| Wireless Access Schemes | p. 1 |
| A Brief History of OWC | p. 7 |
| OWC/Radio Comparison | p. 8 |
| Link Configuration | p. 11 |
| OWC Application A... MORE | p. 19 |
| Safety and Regulations | p. 21 |
| Maximum Permissible Exposures | p. 25 |
| OWC Challenges | p. 25 |
| References | p. 30 |
| Optical Sources and Detectors | p. 35 |
| Light Sources | p. 35 |
| Light-Emitting Diode | p. 38 |
| LED Structure | p. 41 |
| Planar and Dome LED | p. 42 |
| Edge-Emitting LED | p. 43 |
| LED Efficiencies | p. 44 |
| Internal Quantum Efficiency | p. 44 |
| External Quantum Efficiency | p. 45 |
| Power Efficiency | p. 45 |
| Luminous Efficiency | p. 46 |
| LED Modulation Bandwidth | p. 47 |
| The Laser | p. 48 |
| Operating Principle of a Laser | p. 48 |
| Stimulated Emission | p. 49 |
| Population Inversion | p. 50 |
| Optical Feedback and Laser Oscillation | p. 50 |
| Basic Semiconductor Laser Structure | p. 51 |
| The Structure of Common Laser Types | p. 53 |
| Fabry-Perot Laser | p. 53 |
| Distributed Feedback Laser | p. 54 |
| Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser | p. 55 |
| Superluminescent Diodes | p. 56 |
| Comparison of LED and Laser Diodes | p. 57 |
| Photodetectors | p. 57 |
| PIN Photodetector | p. 59 |
| APD Photodetector | p. 61 |
| Photodetection Techniques | p. 62 |
| Direct Detection | p. 63 |
| Coherent Detection | p. 63 |
| Heterodyne Detection | p. 64 |
| Homodyne Detection | p. 66 |
| Photodetection Noise | p. 66 |
| Photon Fluctuation Noise | p. 67 |
| Dark Current and Excess Noise | p. 68 |
| Background Radiation | p. 70 |
| Thermal Noise | p. 70 |
| Intensity Noise | p. 71 |
| Signal-to-Noise Ratio | p. 72 |
| Optical Detection Statistics | p. 72 |
| References | p. 74 |
| Channel Modelling | p. 77 |
| Indoor Optical Wireless Communication Channel | p. 77 |
| LOS Propagation Model | p. 81 |
| Non-LOS Propagation Model | p. 84 |
| Ceiling Bounce Model | p. 95 |
| Hayasaka-Ito Model | p. 96 |
| Spherical Model | p. 97 |
| Artificial Light Interference | p. 99 |
| Incandescent Lamp | p. 100 |
| Fluorescent Lamp Driven by Conventional Ballast | p. 101 |
| Fluorescent Lamp Model | p. 102 |
| Outdoor Channel | p. 107 |
| Atmospheric Channel Loss | p. 107 |
| Fog and Visibility | p. 111 |
| Beam Divergence | p. 120 |
| Optical and Window Loss | p. 125 |
| Pointing Loss | p. 125 |
| The Atmospheric Turbulence Models | p. 126 |
| Log-Normal Turbulence Model | p. 131 |
| Spatial Coherence in Weak Turbulence | p. 135 |
| Limit of Log-Normal Turbulence Model | p. 137 |
| The Gamma-Gamma Turbulence Model | p. 138 |
| The Negative Exponential Turbulence Model | p. 142 |
| Atmospheric Effects on OWC Test Bed | p. 143 |
| Demonstration of Scintillation Effect on Data Carrying Optical Radiation | p. 146 |
| References | p. 154 |
| Modulation Techniques | p. 161 |
| Introduction | p. 161 |
| Analogue Intensity Modulation | p. 164 |
| Digital Baseband Modulation Techniques | p. 167 |
| Baseband Modulations | p. 167 |
| On-Off Keying | p. 168 |
| Error Performance on Gaussian Channels | p. 172 |
| Pulse Position Modulation | p. 178 |
| Error Performance on Gaussian Channels | p. 182 |
| PPM Variants | p. 186 |
| Multilevel PPM | p. 187 |
| Differential PPM | p. 188 |
| Differential Amplitude Pulse Position Modulation | p. 189 |
| Pulse Interval Modulation | p. 189 |
| Error Performance on Gaussian Channels | p. 195 |
| DPIM with No Guard Band | p. 199 |
| DPIM with One Guard Slot | p. 200 |
| Optimum Threshold Level | p. 202 |
| Dual-Header PIM (DH-PIM) | p. 206 |
| Spectral Characteristics | p. 209 |
| Error Performance on Gaussian Channels | p. 211 |
| Multilevel DPIM | p. 215 |
| Comparisons of Baseband Modulation Schemes | p. 217 |
| Power Efficiency | p. 217 |
| Transmission Bandwidth Requirements | p. 219 |
| Transmission Capacity | p. 222 |
| Transmission Rate | p. 223 |
| Peak-to-Average Power Ratio | p. 224 |
| Subcarrier Intensity Modulation | p. 225 |
| Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing | p. 229 |
| Optical Polarization Shift Keying | p. 233 |
| Binary PolSK | p. 234 |
| Bit Error Rate Analysis | p. 239 |
| MPolSK | p. 241 |
| Differential Circle Polarization Shift Keying | p. 245 |
| Error Probability Analysis | p. 247 |
| p. 248 | |
| Derivation of Slot Autocorrelation Function of DPIM(IGS) | p. 248 |
| p. 252 | |
| PSD of DH-PIM | p. 252 |
| Fourier Transform of DH-PIM | p. 252 |
| Power Spectral Density of DH-PIM | p. 252 |
| Further Discussion on the PSD Expression | p. 260 |
| References | p. 261 |
| System Performance Analysis: Indoor | p. 267 |
| Effect of Ambient Light Sources on Indoor OWC Link Performance | p. 267 |
| Effect of FLI without Electrical High-Pass Filtering | p. 268 |
| Matched Filter Receiver | p. 269 |
| Effect of Baseline Wander without FLI | p. 277 |
| Effect of FLI with Electrical High-Pass Filtering | p. 286 |
| Wavelet Analysis | p. 293 |
| The Continuous Wavelet Transform | p. 294 |
| The Discrete Wavelet Transform | p. 297 |
| DWT-Based Denoising | p. 298 |
| Comparative Study of DWT and HPF | p. 303 |
| Experimental Investigations | p. 305 |
| Link Performance for Multipath Propagation | p. 310 |
| OOK | p. 310 |
| PPM | p. 317 |
| DPIM | p. 319 |
| Mitigation Techniques | p. 320 |
| Filtering | p. 321 |
| Equalization | p. 323 |
| The Zero Forcing Equalizer | p. 3.23 |
| Minimum Mean Square Error Equalizer | p. 325 |
| Decision Feedback Equalizer | p. 326 |
| Equalization as a Classification Problem | p. 327 |
| Introduction to Artificial Neural Network | p. 327 |
| Neuron | p. 328 |
| ANN Architectures | p. 329 |
| Training Network | p. 330 |
| Backpropagation Learning | p. 331 |
| The ANN-Based Adaptive Equalizer | p. 332 |
| Comparative Study of the ANN- and FIR-Based Equalizers | p. 340 |
| Diversity Techniques | p. 341 |
| References | p. 342 |
| FSO Link Performance under the Effect of Atmospheric Turbulence | p. 347 |
| On-Off Keying | p. 348 |
| OOK in a Poisson Atmospheric Optical Channel | p. 348 |
| OOK in a Gaussian Atmospheric Optical Channel | p. 350 |
| Pulse Position Modulation | p. 354 |
| Subcarrier Intensity Modulation | p. 358 |
| SIM Generation and Detection | p. 359 |
| SIM-FSO Performance in Log-Normal Atmospheric Channel | p. 362 |
| Bit Error Probability Analysis of SIM-FSO | p. 366 |
| BPSK-Modulated Subcarrier | p. 367 |
| M-Ary PSK-Modulated Subcarrier | p. 373 |
| DPSK-Modulated Subcarrier | p. 374 |
| Multiple SIM Performance Analysis | p. 376 |
| Outage Probability in Log-Normal Atmospheric Channels | p. 377 |
| SIM-FSO Performance in Gamma-Gamma and Negative Exponential Atmospheric Channels | p. 380 |
| Outage Probability in Negative Exponential Model Atmospheric Channels | p. 383 |
| Atmospheric Turbulence-Induced Penalty | p. 384 |
| p. 388 | |
| p. 388 | |
| MATLAB Scripts for Sections 6.3.2, 6.3.3.2 and 6.3.3.3 | p. 388 |
| Section 6.3.2 | p. 388 |
| Sections 6.3.3.2 and 6.3.3.3 | p. 389 |
| References | p. 394 |
| Outdoor OWC Links with Diversity Techniques | p. 397 |
| Atmospheric Turbulence Mitigation Techniques | p. 397 |
| Receiver Diversity in Log-Normal Atmospheric Channels | p. 400 |
| Maximum Ratio Combining | p. 402 |
| Equal Gain Combining | p. 404 |
| Selection Combining | p. 406 |
| Effect of Received Signal Correlation on Error Performance | p. 407 |
| Outage Probability with Receiver Diversity in a Log-Normal Atmospheric Channel | p. 408 |
| Transmitter Diversity in a Log-Normal Atmospheric Channel | p. 409 |
| Transmitter-Receiver Diversity in a Log-Normal Atmospheric Channel | p. 410 |
| Results and Discussions of SIM-FSO with Spatial Diversity in a Log-Normal Atmospheric Channel | p. 411 |
| SIM-FSO with Receiver Diversity in Gamma-Gamma and Negative Exponential Atmospheric Channels | p. 416 |
| BER and Outage Probability of BPSK-SIM with Spatial Diversity | p. 416 |
| BER and Outage Probability of DPSK-SIM in Negative Exponential Channels | p. 419 |
| Terrestrial Free Space Optical Links with Subcarrier Time Diversity | p. 425 |
| Error Performance with STDD | p. 425 |
| Error Performance of Short-Range Links | p. 427 |
| Error Performance of Long-Range Links | p. 428 |
| Results and Discussion for Short-Range Links | p. 429 |
| Results and Discussion for Long-Range Links | p. 430 |
| Aperture Averaging | p. 432 |
| Plane Wave | p. 432 |
| Spherical Wave | p. 433 |
| Gaussian Beam Wave | p. 434 |
| p. 435 | |
| Sum of Log-Normal Distribution Mean and Variance Calculation | p. 435 |
| p. 437 | |
| PDF of Imax = max(Ii}Ni=1 for Log-Normal-Distributed Variables | p. 437 |
| p. 438 | |
| PDF of Imax = max(Ii}Ni=1 for Negative Exponential Distributed Variables | p. 438 |
| References | p. 438 |
| Visible Light Communications | p. 443 |
| Introduction | p. 443 |
| System Description | p. 448 |
| VLC System Model | p. 452 |
| SNR Analysis | p. 463 |
| Channel Delay Spread | p. 464 |
| System Implementations | p. 467 |
| Bit Angle Modulation | p. 469 |
| Pulse Modulation Schemes | p. 470 |
| PWM with Discrete Multitone Modulation | p. 472 |
| Multilevel PWM-PPM | p. 474 |
| PWM with NRZ-OOK | p. 476 |
| Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output VLC | p. 477 |
| Home Access Network | p. 486 |
| References | p. 493 |
| Index | p. 497 |
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