Optical Wireless Communications (2nd Edition)

Description

The 2^nd Edition of Optical Wireless Communications: System and Channel Modelling with MATLAB^® with additional new materials, is a self-contained volume that provides a concise and comprehensive coverage of the theory and technology of optical wireless communication systems (OWC). The delivery method makes the book appropriate for students studying at undergraduate and graduate levels as well as researchers and professional engineers working in the field of OWC.

The book gives a detailed description of OWC, focusing mainly on the infrared and visible bands, for indoor and outdoor applications. A major attraction of the book is the inclusion of Matlab codes and simulations results as well as experimental test-beds for free space optics and visible light communication systems. This valuable resource will aid the readers in understanding the concept, carrying out extensive analysis, simulations, implementation and evaluation of OWC links.

This 2^nd edition is structured into nine compact chapters that cover the main aspects of OWC systems:

• History, current state of the art and challenges
• Fundamental principles
• Optical source and detector and noise sources
• Modulation, equalization, diversity techniques
• Channel models and system performance analysis
• Visible light communications
• Terrestrial free space optics communications
• Relay-based free space optics communications
• Matlab codes.

A number of Matlab based simulation codes are included in this 2^nd edition to assist the readers in mastering the subject and most importantly to encourage them to write their own simulation codes and enhance their knowledge.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Optical Wireless Communication Systems
2. Optical Sources and Detectors
3. Channel Modelling
4. Modulation Techniques
5. System Performance Analysis: Indoor
6. FSO Link Performance under the Effect of Atmospheric Turbulence
7. Outdoor OWC Links with Diversity Techniques
8. Visible Light Communications
9. Ultraviolet OWC & Underwater OWC

Author(s) Description

Professor Zabih Ghassemlooy, CEng, Fellow of IET, Senior Member of IEEE: Received his BSc (Hons) degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Manchester Metropolitan University in 1981, and his MSc and PhD in Optical Communications from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), in 1984 and 1987, respectively with Scholarships from the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council, UK. From 1986-87 worked in UMIST and from 1987 to 1988 was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the City University, London.