The Silicon photomultiplier as a metasystem with designed electronics as metadevice for a new receiver-emitter in visible light communications

TL;DR

This paper presents a novel receiver-emitter system for visible light communication that leverages Silicon Photomultipliers as metasystems with specialized electronics, enhancing efficiency and security.

Contribution

It introduces a new metadevice based on SiPMs integrated with tailored electronics for improved VLC performance, combining detection, transmission, and analysis functionalities.

Findings

High efficiency and sensitivity of SiPMs in VLC applications

Enhanced security and data transmission capabilities

Effective operation under background light conditions

Abstract

A Silicon Photomultiplier, SiPM, is a metasystem of Avalanche Photodiodes, APDs, which embedded in a specific purpose electronic, becomes a metadevice with unique and useful advanced functionalities to capture, transmit and analyze information with increased efficiency and security. The SiPM is a very small state of the art photo-detector with very high efficiency and sensitivity, with good response to controlled light pulses in the presence of background light without saturation. New results profit of such metadevice to propose a new receiver-emitter system useful for Visible Light Communication, VLC.