Optical impulse modulation for indoor diffuse wireless communications

Current lasers and LEDs have far higher pulse rates than can be supported by the lowpass indoor diffuse optical wireless channel. Although high-frequency emissions are attenuated by the channel and are not detected by the receiver, a key insight of this paper is that these bands can be used to satisfy the channel non-negativity constraint. We define optical impulse modulation (OIM) in which data are confined to the lowpass region while the …