Green Micro-LED With a Bandwidth Exceeding 2 GHz for 9-Gbps Visible Light Communication Based on SNR Gap-Dependent Bit and Power Loading

• Published in: Journal of lightwave technology Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 472 - 480
• Main Authors: Jin, Zuxin, Lin, Runze, Liu, Xuyang, Sun, Di, Liu, Bin, Tao, Tao, Xu, Feifan, Fang, Zhilai, Cui, Xugao, Tian, Pengfei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 15.01.2025; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Algorithms; Bandwidth; Bandwidths; Bit error rate; Bit loading; Clean energy; Communication; Current density; Error correction; High speed; Light emitting diodes; Loading; micro-LED; Modulation; modulation bandwidth; Noise threshold; OFDM; Optical communication; Power generation; Quantum well devices; Signal to noise ratio; Strain; Visible light communication; Wave division multiplexing; Wavelength division multiplexing
• ISSN: 0733-8724; 1558-2213
• DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2024.3470242

Visible light communication (VLC) possesses abundant spectrum resource and can be a promising candidate in the 6G network for its ability of combining positioning, lighting and communication. At present, the high-speed VLC is mainly based on blue and red light. The data rate of green light is still low. In order to develop the bandwidth and data rate of green micro-LEDs in wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) applications of VLC system, we designed high-bandwidth green micro-LEDs with high light output power. A 10-<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">\mu</tex-math></inline-formula> m green micro-LED achieved an E-E bandwidth and an E-O bandwidth up to 1.27 GHz and 2.19 GHz at a current density of 40 kA/cm<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">^{2}</tex-math></inline-formula>. In order to increase the light output power to milliwatts, whereas mostly maintaining the same bandwidth as single pixel, series-connected micro-LED array was fabricated. We also utilized a bit and power loading algorithm for VLC system, which can obtain high spectral efficiency below the 3.8 <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">\times 10^{-3}</tex-math></inline-formula> forward error correction (FEC) threshold by adopting signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) gap adjustment. Record data rates of 9.06 Gbps, 8.14 Gbps and 6.23 Gbps with bit error rates (BER) of 3.7 <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">\times 10^{-3}</tex-math></inline-formula>, 3.4 <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">\times 10^{-3}</tex-math></inline-formula> and 3.2 <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">\times 10^{-3}</tex-math></inline-formula> were achieved at 0.2 m, 1 m and 3 m, respectively. These are the highest data rates achieved by green micro-LED in free space, which will promote the applications of high-speed WDM in VLC.