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标题：Experimental Implementation and Theoretical Investigation of a Vanadium Dioxide Optical Filter for Bit Error Rate Enhancement of Enhanced Space Shift Keying Visible Light Communication Systems
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作者：Dimitra K. Manousou ; Argyris N. Stassinakis ; Emmanuel Syskakis 等
期刊名称：Computation
电子版ISSN：2079-3197
出版年度：2019
卷号：7
期号：2
页码：30-41
DOI：10.3390/computation7020030
出版社：MDPI Publishing
摘要：Visible Light Communication (VLC) systems use light-emitting diode (LED) technology to provide high-capacity optical links. The advantages they offer, such as the high data rate and the low installation and operational cost, have identified them as a significant solution for modern networks. However, such systems are vulnerable to various exogenous factors, with the background sunlight noise having the greatest impact. In order to reduce the negative influence of the background noise effect, optical filters can be used. In this work, for the first time, a low-cost optical vanadium dioxide (VO2) optical filter has been designed and experimentally implemented based on the requirements of typical and realistic VLC systems in order to significantly increase their performance by reducing the transmittance of background noise. The functionality of the specific filter is investigated by means of its bit error rate (BER) performance estimation, taking into account its experimentally measured characteristics. Numerous results are provided in order to prove the significant performance enhancement of the VLC systems which, as it is shown, reaches almost six orders of magnitude in some cases, using the specific experimental optical filter.
关键词：bit error rate; VLC; experimental optical filter; eSSK; VO 2 filter bit error rate ; VLC ; experimental optical filter ; eSSK ; VO 2 filter