A burst-mode photon counting receiver with automatic channel estimation and bit rate detection

Rao, Hemonth G.; DeVoe, Catherine E.; Fletcher, Andrew S.; Gaschits, Igor D.; Hamilton, Scott A.; Hardy, Nicholas D.; Ingwersen, John G.; Kaminsky, Richard D.; Moores, John D.; Scheinbart, Marvin S.; Yarnall, Timothy M.

doi:10.1117/12.2222885

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“…The main research ideas at this stage are photon counting technology and coherent optical communication technology. In 2016 [41] , MIT achieved a maximum link loss of 97.1dB using photon counting signal processing techniques. In 2018 [42] , the Shanghai Institute of Optics designed a photon-counting reception system with a low-density parity check code, with a maximum link loss of -136.8dB, achieving a reception sensitivity of 3.32 bits/photon.…”

Section: Underwater High-sensitivity Optical Signal Processing Techni...mentioning

confidence: 99%

The research progress in underwater wireless optical communication technology

Han¹,

Nie²,

Chang³

et al. 2023

First International Conference on Spatial Atmospheric Marine Environmental Optics (SAME 2023)

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Underwater wireless optical communication, which is an effective technical way to build a high-speed and flexible underwater wireless communication network due to its large bandwidth, good confidentiality and low time delay, is widely regarded as a complementary communication way to hydroacoustic communication. The newest research progress and main technical specification in the current technology of underwater wireless optical communication are introduced, the characteristics of the current underwater wireless optical communication technology are summarized in this paper. A series of improvement measures are proposed for the problems of short communication distance and low robustness in underwater wireless optical communication system, which can provide references for underwater wireless optical communication technology research and engineering project development.

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Section: Underwater High-sensitivity Optical Signal Processing Techni...mentioning

confidence: 99%

The research progress in underwater wireless optical communication technology

Han¹,

Nie²,

Chang³

et al. 2023

First International Conference on Spatial Atmospheric Marine Environmental Optics (SAME 2023)

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“…Both absorption and scattering cause the loss of optical signal energy at the receiver, resulting in a reduction in signal-to-noise ratio and communication distance. As illustrated in [5], the link loss for a realistic 10 m green-light UOWC system can vary from 6.6 dB to 95.5 dB due to dynamic underwater channel conditions from a clean ocean to turbid harbor seawater.…”

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“…In this condition, the distribution of the counted photons does not obey a strict Poisson distribution, as shown in Figure 7. The BER value can be calculated using Equation (23), where n th is the hard-decision threshold [5].…”

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Experimental Demonstration of High-Sensitivity Underwater Optical Wireless Communication Based on Photocounting Receiver

Liu

Chen

et al. 2021

Photonics

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In this paper, we propose a high-sensitivity long-reach underwater optical wireless communication (UOWC) system with an Mbps-scale data rate. Using a commercial blue light-emitting diode (LED) source, a photon counting receiver, and return-to-zero on–off keying modulation, a receiver sensitivity of −70 dBm at 7% FEC limit is successfully achieved for a 5 Mbps intensity modulation direct detection UOWC system over 10 m underwater channel. For 1 Mbps and 2 Mbps data rates, the receiver sensitivity is enhanced to −76 dBm and −74 dBm, respectively. We further investigate the system performance under different water conditions: first type of seawater (c = 0.056 m−1), second type (c = 0.151 m−1), and third type (c = 0.398 m−1). The maximum distance of the 2 Mbps signal can be extended up to 100 m in the first type of seawater.

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“…Sarbazi et al [17] investigated the bit error performance of the receiver based on SPAD array with OOK modulation in various array sizes, dead time, and background count rate. Experimentally, Rao et al [18] demonstrated a multirate UPCC system at data rates up to 10.416 Mbps over a 9.1-m tap water channel. Hu et al [19] achieved a PMT-based UPCC system using a 256-PPM; the length of channel and communication sensitivity are 120 m and 3.32 bits/photon in Jerlov II water.…”

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A Comprehensive Comparison and Analysis of Several Intensity Modulations Based on the Underwater Photon-Counting Communication System

Han

Chang

et al. 2022

Front. Phys.

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Underwater wireless optical communication is facing absorption, scattering problems, which, in principle, can be greatly resolved by underwater photon-counting communication (UPCC) technology that exhibits high-sensitivity communication characteristics in long-range underwater wireless optical communication. Recent studies on UPCC are mainly focused on a single intensity modulation such as on–off keying (OOK) and pulse position modulation (PPM) technologies, and the comprehensive analysis of communication performance combing OOK modulation and digital pulse modulations remains a lack. To this, by using a UPCC system based on a single-photon avalanche diode, we reveal the communication performances of OOK, PPM, differential pulse interval modulation (DPIM), differential pulse position modulation (DPPM), and dual-header pulse interval modulation, and find that (1) the PPM has the longest transmission distance at the same bit error ratio when M > 2, but the lowest communication rate under identical modulation bandwidth and average transmit power; and (2) the DPPM and DPIM perform the optimum communication performance at the fixed communication rate when M = 8. We thus conclude that the DPPM and DPIM have advantages of low modulation bandwidth and long time slot time compared with PPM, indicating the significance of reducing the difficulty of signal synchronization and the complexity of the underwater photon-counting system accordingly.

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A burst-mode photon counting receiver with automatic channel estimation and bit rate detection

Cited by 6 publications

References 12 publications

The research progress in underwater wireless optical communication technology

The research progress in underwater wireless optical communication technology

Experimental Demonstration of High-Sensitivity Underwater Optical Wireless Communication Based on Photocounting Receiver

A Comprehensive Comparison and Analysis of Several Intensity Modulations Based on the Underwater Photon-Counting Communication System

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