*A paper titled "Experimental Validation of Optical Wireless Receiver using Solar Panel with Bandwidth Enhancement Circuit" by {Rahul, Abhijit Mitra, Vivek Ashok Bohara, Anand Srivastava, and Deepak Solanki} is accepted to 95th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2022-Spring), Helsinki, Finland 2022.
Solar panel design for simultaneous energy harvesting and communication
Block diagram of communication setup
Project Implementation
Abstract
This project presents a bandwidth enhancement circuit that enhances the 3dB bandwidth of an off-the-shelf solar panel based receiver system for optical wireless communication. Experiment results show enhancement of the 3dB bandwidth from 163kHz to 1.62MHz. A data rate of 1.5Mbps is achieved with the OOK modulation scheme over the VLC link of 1m. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest data rate using solar panel as a receiver with OOK modulation. Low-cost, larger receiving area, ease of integration with other devices make the proposed system an environment-friendly and energy-efficient solution for optical wireless communication.
