Modified Angle Diversity Receiver with Wide Field-of-View for Short-Range High-Speed Optical Wireless Communication

Abstract:
We propose and experimentally demonstrate a modified angle-diversity receiver with >40de-gree field-of-view and >3.3Gb/s on-off-keyed data transmission capability for optical-wireless communi-cation (OWC) by employing a scalable 2D arrangement of photodetectors. The receiver architecture simplifies practical deployment of OWC in mobile/nomadic consumer markets.