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  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,319 Views
11 Pages

Characterization of Light-To-Frequency Converter for Visible Light Communication Systems

  • Roger Alexander Martínez Ciro,
  • Francisco Eugenio López Giraldo,
  • Andrés Felipe Betancur Perez and
  • Martín Luna Rivera

PIN (positive intrinsic negative) photodiodes and analog-to-digital converters (ADC) are commonly used on visible light communication (VLC) receivers in order to retrieve the data on detected signals. In this paper, a visible light communication rece...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,048 Views
15 Pages

With the rapid development of visible light communication (VLC) technology, traditional modulation schemes can no longer meet the high demands for bandwidth efficiency and signal stability in complex application scenarios. In particular, in orthogona...

  • Article
  • Open Access
391 Views
23 Pages

Asymmetric Spatial–Frequency Fusion Network for Infrared and Visible Object Detection

  • Jing Liu,
  • Jing Gao,
  • Xiaoyong Liu,
  • Junjie Tao,
  • Jun Ma,
  • Chaoping Guo,
  • Peijun Shi and
  • Pan Li

17 December 2025

Infrared and visible image fusion-based object detection is critical for robust environmental perception under adverse conditions, yet existing methods still suffer from insufficient modeling of modality discrepancies and limited adaptivity in their...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,318 Views
28 Pages

A Review of Cognitive Hybrid Radio Frequency/Visible Light Communication Systems for Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Rodrigo Fuchs Miranda,
  • Carlos Henrique Barriquello,
  • Vitalio Alfonso Reguera,
  • Gustavo Weber Denardin,
  • Djeisson Hoffmann Thomas,
  • Felipe Loose and
  • Leonardo Saldanha Amaral

12 September 2023

The development and growth of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is significantly propelled by advances in Radio Frequency (RF) and Visible Light Communication (VLC) technologies. This paper endeavors to present a comprehensive review of the state-of-th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,942 Views
20 Pages

5 September 2023

Aiming at the problem of resource allocation strategies limiting the system transmission rate in indoor visible light communication and radio frequency (VLC/RF) systems, a new resource allocation method is proposed, and orthogonal frequency-division...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,008 Views
17 Pages

Design and Implementation of a Multi-Colour Visible Light Communication System Based on a Light-to-Frequency Receiver

  • Roger Alexander Martínez-Ciro,
  • Francisco Eugenio López-Giraldo,
  • Andrés Felipe Betancur-Perez and
  • Jose Martín Luna-Rivera

Colour-shift keying (CSK) is a visible light communication (VLC) modulation scheme used in the existing IEEE 802.15.7 standard. In CSK, information is transmitted by changing the light intensities of the RGB LEDs. In this work, a low-complexity VLC s...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,996 Views
19 Pages

Adapting Techniques to Improve Efficiency in Radio Frequency Power Amplifiers for Visible Light Communications

  • Daniel G. Aller,
  • Diego G. Lamar,
  • Juan Rodriguez,
  • Pablo F. Miaja,
  • Valentin Francisco Romero,
  • Jose Mendiolagoitia and
  • Javier Sebastian

It is well known that modern wireless communications systems need linear, wide bandwidth, efficient Radio Frequency Power Amplifiers (RFPAs). However, conventional configurations of RFPAs based on Class A, Class B, and Class AB exhibit extremely low...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,753 Views
10 Pages

8 November 2021

In order to increase transmission capacity, multiplexing schemes in different physical dimensions, including time, frequency, modulation quadrature, polarization, and space, can be employed. In this work, we propose and demonstrate a red color laser-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,113 Views
20 Pages

Experimental Demonstration of a Visible Light Communications System Based on Binary Frequency-Shift Keying Modulation: A New Step toward Improved Noise Resilience

  • Cătălin Beguni,
  • Adrian Done,
  • Alin-Mihai Căilean,
  • Sebastian-Andrei Avătămăniței and
  • Eduard Zadobrischi

23 May 2023

Visible light communications (VLC) are an emerging technology that is increasingly demonstrating its ability to provide wireless communications in areas where radio frequency (RF) technology might have some limitations. Therefore, VLC systems offer p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,478 Views
14 Pages

11 November 2022

In order to achieve high-capacity visible light communication (VLC), five dimensions in physics, including frequency, time, quadrature modulation, space, and polarization can be utilized. Orthogonality should be maintained in order to reduce the cros...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,105 Views
11 Pages

Optical Bistability Based on MoS2 in the Kretschmann–Raether Configuration at Visible Light Frequencies

  • Haishan Tian,
  • Songqing Tang,
  • Leyong Jiang,
  • Huabing Wang,
  • Jingke Zhang and
  • Gang Sun

21 August 2024

In this study, we theoretically study the optical bistability (OB) of reflected light beams at visible light frequencies by using a Kretschmann–Raether (KR) configuration where double-layer MoS2 is inserted. This OB phenomenon results from the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,272 Views
10 Pages

Discretely Tunable Multiwavelength Visible Laser Based on Cascaded Frequency Conversion Processes

  • Xinlin Lv,
  • Junchi Chen,
  • Yujie Peng,
  • Zhiyuan Huang,
  • Yingbin Long,
  • Xinliang Wang,
  • Guanting Liu and
  • Yuxin Leng

1 December 2020

We demonstrate a discretely tunable multiwavelength visible laser through second harmonic generation (SHG) and sum frequency generation (SFG) of multiorder Stokes lasers generated from an external Raman laser oscillator. The Raman laser oscillator, d...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,890 Views
18 Pages

Visibility Extension of 1-D Aperture Synthesis by a Residual CNN for Spatial Resolution Enhancement

  • Guanghui Zhao,
  • Qingxia Li,
  • Zhiwei Chen,
  • Zhenyu Lei,
  • Chengwang Xiao and
  • Yuhang Huang

8 February 2023

In order to improve the spatial resolution of a one-dimensional aperture synthesis (1-D AS) radiometer without increasing the size of the antenna array, the method of visibility extension (VE) is proposed in this article. In the VE method, prior info...

  • Article
  • Open Access
574 Views
19 Pages

FE-WRNet: Frequency-Enhanced Network for Visible Watermark Removal in Document Images

  • Zhengli Chen,
  • Yuwei Zhang,
  • Jielu Yan,
  • Xuekai Wei,
  • Weizhi Xian,
  • Qin Mao,
  • Yi Qin and
  • Tong Gao

18 November 2025

In video pipelines, document content in recorded lectures, surveillance footage, and broadcasted materials is often overlaid with persistent visible watermarks. Such overlays greatly reduce the readability of document images and interfere with downst...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,575 Views
19 Pages

20 February 2025

Visible–infrared person re-identification (VI-ReID) aims to minimize the modality gaps of pedestrian images across different modalities. Existing methods primarily focus on extracting cross-modality features from the spatial domain, which often...

  • Communication
  • Open Access

Deep-Subwavelength Negative Refraction of Hyperbolic Plasmon Polariton at Visible Frequencies

  • Shuxin Qi,
  • Xuanbin Chen,
  • Haoran Lv,
  • Yuqi Wang,
  • Jihong Zhu,
  • Jiadian Yan and
  • Qing Zhang

3 February 2026

Negative refraction of nanolight (e.g., polaritons, hybrid light, and matter excitation) provides a promising building block for nanophotonics, as it paves the way for developing cutting-edge nanoscale applications, such as super-resolution and subwa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
6,135 Views
15 Pages

A Novel Frequency Domain Visible Light Communication (VLC) Three-Dimensional Trilateration System for Localization in Underground Mining

  • Ali Dehghan Firoozabadi,
  • Cesar Azurdia-Meza,
  • Ismael Soto,
  • Fabian Seguel,
  • Nicolas Krommenacker,
  • Daniel Iturralde,
  • Patrick Charpentier and
  • David Zabala-Blanco

10 April 2019

A new visible light communication (VLC) system is proposed for localization in underground mining. Existent systems, such as global positioning system (GPS) and systems based on mobile communication, are generally not useful in underground mining. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,716 Views
16 Pages

23 May 2021

The Environmental Protection Administration of Taiwan’s Executive Yuan has set up many air quality monitoring stations to monitor air pollution in the environment. The current weather forecast also includes information used to predict air pollution....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,713 Views
15 Pages

5 December 2024

In indoor visible light communication (VLC) and visible light positioning (VLP) systems, the performance of conventional orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) schemes is often compromised due to the nonlinear characteristics and limited m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,175 Views
14 Pages

The Performance Improvement of VLC-OFDM System Based on Reservoir Computing

  • Bingyao Cao,
  • Kechen Yuan,
  • Hu Li,
  • Shuaihang Duan,
  • Yuwen Li and
  • Yuanjiang Ouyang

Nonlinear effects have been restricting the development of high-speed visible light communication (VLC) systems. Neural network (NN) has become an effective means to alleviate the nonlinearity of a VLC system due to its powerful ability to fit compli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,863 Views
14 Pages

17 May 2024

Based on the decorrelation calculation of diffusion ultrasound in time-frequency domain, this paper discusses the repeatability and potential significance of Disturbance Sensitive Zone (DSZ) in time-frequency domain. The experimental study of Barely...

  • Review
  • Open Access
32 Citations
7,658 Views
17 Pages

Advances in Visible Light Communication Technologies and Applications

  • Zuhang Geng,
  • Faisal Nadeem Khan,
  • Xun Guan and
  • Yuhan Dong

23 November 2022

With the development of light emitting diode (LED) lighting technology and its wide applications, visible light communication (VLC) technology has also seen significant advancements. VLC is regarded as a supplementary technology to radio frequency (R...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,595 Views
12 Pages

Different from the radio frequency bipolar complex signalling, LED-based visible light communication (LED-VLC) meets the non-negativity requirement by adding a bias component (BC) to a bipolar real-valued signal. Although many people know that there...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,180 Views
19 Pages

Indoor Wavelet OFDM VLC-MIMO System: Performance Evaluation

  • Waleed K. Badawi,
  • Marwa G. El-Hossary and
  • Moustafa H. Aly

5 February 2021

Both light emitting diode (LED) characteristics for illumination and communication simultaneously have made visible light communication-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (VLC-OFDM) a strong competitive to radio frequency (RF). In this junctu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,792 Views
16 Pages

19 June 2023

Perfect metamaterial absorber (PMA) is an attractive optical wavelength absorber with potential solar energy and photovoltaic applications. Perfect metamaterials used as solar cells can improve efficiency by amplifying incident solar waves on the PMA...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,343 Views
28 Pages

Hybrid VLC-RF Channel Estimation for GFDM Wireless Sensor Networks Using Tree-Based Regressor

  • Azam Isam Aladwani,
  • Tarik Adnan Almohamad,
  • Abdullah Talha Sözer and
  • İsmail Rakıp Karaş

23 June 2025

This paper proposes a tree-based regression model for hybrid channel estimation in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in generalized frequency division multiplexing (GFDM) over both visible light communication (VLC) and radio frequency (RF) links. The h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,650 Views
14 Pages

Li-Pos: A Light Positioning Framework Leveraging OFDM for Visible Light Communication

  • Jianbin Wu,
  • Sami Ahmed Haider,
  • Muhammad Irshad,
  • Jehangir Arshad,
  • Sohail M. Noman and
  • Aparna Murthy

24 June 2021

The design of solid-state lighting is vital, as numerous metrics are involved in their exact positioning, and as it is utilized in various processes, ranging from intelligent buildings to the internet of things (IoT). This work aims to determine the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,169 Views
12 Pages

13 May 2025

Indoor low-power positioning systems have received much attention, and visible light positioning (VLP) shows great potential for its high accuracy and low power consumption. However, VLP also exhibits some limitations like small coverage area and the...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,732 Views
12 Pages

Orthogonal Subblock Division Multiple Access for OFDM-IM-Based Multi-User VLC Systems

  • Yungui Nie,
  • Jiamin Chen,
  • Wanli Wen,
  • Min Liu,
  • Xiong Deng and
  • Chen Chen

In this paper, we propose and experimentally demonstrate an orthogonal subblock division multiple access (OSDMA) scheme for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing with index modulation (OFDM-IM)-based multi-user visible light communication (MU-VL...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,200 Views
16 Pages

30 December 2020

Linear programming was used to assess the ability of polarized infrared absorption, Raman scattering, and visible–infrared sum-frequency generation to correctly identify the composition of a mixture of molecules adsorbed onto a surface in four...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,025 Views
36 Pages

31 October 2025

Embankment piping and leakage are primary causes of flood control infrastructure failure, accounting for more than 90% of embankment failures worldwide and posing significant threats to public safety and economic stability. Current manual inspection...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,627 Views
16 Pages

In order to improve the spectral efficiency (SE) as well as the receiver performance of band-limited visible light communications (VLCs), two orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based quadrature generalized multiple-input multiple-outpu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,547 Views
13 Pages

The electro-optic output of light-emitting diodes commonly used in visible light communication systems is generally nonlinear in nature. It is particularly problematic when using advanced modulation formats, such as orthogonal frequency-division mult...

  • Article
  • Open Access
930 Views
20 Pages

An optimized design of photodetectors and antennas for Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET)-based glucose biosensing in endoscopic capsules is presented. The compact antenna design is tailored for the visible optical frequencies (~526 THz) a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
854 Views
11 Pages

Collaborative Online Learning-Based Distributed Handover Scheme in Hybrid VLC/RF 5G Systems

  • Saidiwaerdi Maimaiti,
  • Shuman Huang,
  • Kaisa Zhang,
  • Xuewen Liu,
  • Zhiwei Xu and
  • Jihang Mi

This paper investigates handover in hybrid visible light communication (VLC)/radio frequency (RF) networks. In such a network, mobile users are prone to experience frequent handovers (FHOs). To this end, we propose a collaborative online learning-bas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,336 Views
16 Pages

4 September 2019

In visible light communications (VLC), dimming control constitutes an indispensable technique to comply with various illumination necessities and with different energy consumption constraints. Therefore, a novel dimming compatible hybrid optical orth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,617 Views
14 Pages

13 November 2022

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is deemed to be a prospective multiple access technology of the next generation. However, in visible light communication (VLC), when advanced hybrid optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (O-OFDM), su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,534 Views
10 Pages

9 February 2021

Given the tunability of their optical properties over the UV–Visible–Near IR spectral range, ligand-capped quantum dots (QDs) are employed for the design of optical biosensors with low detection threshold. Thanks to non-linear optical spectroscopies,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,289 Views
11 Pages

In this letter, we present the first attempt of active light-emitting diode (LED) indexes estimating for the generalized LED index modulation optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (GLIM-OFDM) in visible light communication (VLC) system b...

  • Review
  • Open Access
46 Citations
6,616 Views
30 Pages

A Review of Hybrid VLC/RF Networks: Features, Applications, and Future Directions

  • Lisandra Bravo Alvarez,
  • Samuel Montejo-Sánchez,
  • Lien Rodríguez-López,
  • Cesar Azurdia-Meza and
  • Gabriel Saavedra

30 August 2023

The expectation for communication systems beyond 5G/6G is to provide high reliability, high throughput, low latency, and high energy efficiency services. The integration between systems based on radio frequency (RF) and visible light communication (V...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,256 Views
11 Pages

Conventional optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) schemes, such as adaptively biased optical OFDM (ABO-OFDM) and hybrid asymmetrically clipped optical OFDM (HACO-OFDM), are unable to tap all the resources of the subcarriers and o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,627 Views
19 Pages

15 January 2025

Filtered orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (F-OFDM), employed in visible light communication (VLC) systems, has been considered a promising technique for overcoming OFDM’s large out-of-band emissions and thus reducing bandwidth efficie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,629 Views
14 Pages

To study the potential application of metasurfaces in lens technology, we propose a dendritic meta-molecule surface (also referred to as a dendritic metasurface) and realize the focusing effect in the visible spectrum through simulations and experime...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,593 Views
22 Pages

11 May 2023

Visible light communication (VLC) is an emerging mode of wireless communication that supports both illumination and communication. One essential function of VLC systems is the dimming control, which requires a sensitive receiver for low-light conditi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,398 Views
19 Pages

23 March 2022

Visible light communication (VLC) channel quality depends on line-of-sight (LoS) transmission, which cannot guarantee continuous transmission due to interruptions caused by blockage and user mobility. Thus, integrating VLC with radio frequency (RF) s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,892 Views
11 Pages

28 February 2019

Billions of U.S. dollars of basic and applied research funding have been invested during the last few years in ideas proposing inverse concepts. The photonics market could not make an exception to this global trend, and thus, several agenda-setting r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,693 Views
13 Pages

DNN-Based Physical-Layer Network Coding for Visible Light Communications

  • Xuesong Wang,
  • Runxin Zhang,
  • Xinyan Xie and
  • Lu Lu

26 December 2022

The key difference between visible light communication (VLC) and radio frequency (RF) communication is the former’s line-of-sight (LOS) transmission nature, and hence a relay node has to be adopted for VLC to extend its coverage. Physical-layer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,538 Views
7 Pages

Low-Threshold Optical Bistability in the Graphene-Oxide Integrated Asymmetric Nanocavity at Visible Light Frequencies

  • Zeqiang Wang,
  • Boyuan Cai,
  • Zhengfen Wan,
  • Yunyue Zhang,
  • Xiaoguang Ma,
  • Min Gu and
  • Qiming Zhang

28 March 2022

Here, we propose an optical bistable device structure with a few layers of graphene oxide integrated in the metal-dielectric-metal based asymmetric nanocavity. Through the light confinement in the nanocavity, the third order nonlinear absorption of g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,601 Views
23 Pages

25 June 2023

Atmospheric visibility is an important indicator that reflects the transparency of the atmosphere and characterizes the air quality, so it is of great significance to study the long-term change in visibility. This paper is based on the global surface...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,164 Views
17 Pages

28 February 2023

The current deep learning-based image fusion methods can not sufficiently learn the features of images in a wide frequency range. Therefore, we proposed IFormerFusion, which is based on the Inception Transformer and cross-domain frequency fusion. To...

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