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Optical Wireless Applications

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As light-emitting diodes (LEDs) increasingly displace incandescent lighting over the next few years, general applications of optical wireless (OW) technology are expected to include wireless Internet access, broadcast from LED signage, and machine-to-machine positioning and navigation by light. This section explores several fundamental research topics of indoor optical wireless communications (IOWC). The authors develop a simulation method to generate IOWC channel models by tracking light reflections. The method is further optimized by investigating the contribution of each order of reflections and proposing a calibration method.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, The Center for Information and Communications Technology Research (CICTR), Pennsylvania State University, 229 EE-West, University Park, PA, 16802, USA

    Z. Zhou & M. Kavehrad

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  1. Smart Lighting Engineering Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA

    Robert Karlicek

  2. Department of Optics and Photonics, National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan

    Ching-Cherng Sun

  3. Toulouse University, Toulouse, France

    Georges Zissis

  4. OLED Lighting, Universal Display Corporation, Ewing, USA

    Ruiqing Ma

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Zhou, Z., Kavehrad, M. (2017). Optical Wireless Applications. In: Karlicek, R., Sun, CC., Zissis, G., Ma, R. (eds) Handbook of Advanced Lighting Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00176-0_34

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