A Novel Visible Light Communication System Prototype Based on SiPM Receiver

TL;DR

This paper presents a prototype of a visible light communication system using SiPM receivers, demonstrating its potential for high-speed optical wireless communication due to its superior detection features.

Contribution

The paper introduces a VLC system prototype based on SiPM, comparing its performance with other photodetectors and evaluating its transmission capabilities.

Findings

SiPM shows higher photon detection efficiency than PD, APD, and PMT.

The SiPM-based VLC system achieves promising transmission rates.

The system demonstrates effective data reconstruction and high throughput.

Abstract

Si-Photomultiplier (SiPM) has several attracting features, which can be helpful in the communication field, such as high photon detection efficiency, fast transient response, excellent timing resolution, and wide spectral range. In this paper, we compare SiPM with photodiode (PD), Avalanche photodiodes (APD), and Photomultiplier tube (PMT) in terms of the transformation related performance, and then implement Si-Photomultiplier (SiPM) based visible light communication (VLC) system driven with visible light light-emitting diode (LED). The system throughout ability, transmission rate, data reconstruction, and required AD sample rate are evaluated. The encouraging results suggest that the SiPM receiver has great application potentials, such as optical wireless communication systems and light fidelity, in which a wide bandwidth of the sensor response is important to enhance the transfer rate.