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Building Blocks for Mobile Free-Space-Optical Networks
Overview Existence of Line Of Sight (LOS) and alignment between the communicating antennas are one of the key requirements for Free-Space-Optical (FSO) communication. To ensure uninterrupted data flow, auto-aligning transmitter and receiver modules are necessary. This paper proposes a new optical antenna design that employs spherical antennas covered with transmitter and receiver modules for maintaining optical links even when antennas are in relative motion. In this paper, for proof-of-concept, an auto-configurable circuit integrated with light sources and detectors placed on spherical surfaces is designed and tested. It also performs simulation-based analysis of these multi-element FSO modules that can enable mobility and high bandwidth in wireless, particularly indoor, networks.
| Publisher | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | File Format | |
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| Date Published | January 2005 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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