Optimization of A Mobile Optical SWIPT System With Asymmetric Spatially Separated Laser Resonator

TL;DR

This paper proposes an optimized mobile optical SWIPT system using asymmetric SSLR, enhancing power transfer and data rates, and discusses the trade-offs involved, with numerical results showing significant improvements over symmetric systems.

Contribution

It introduces a novel asymmetric SSLR-based system and provides an optimization procedure to improve power and data transfer capabilities.

Findings

Optimized asymmetric SSLR system achieves higher charging power.

Enhanced communication rate compared to symmetric systems.

Trade-off analysis between power and information transfer.

Abstract

High-power and high-rate simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) becomes more and more important with the development of Internet of Things technologies. Optical SWIPT, also known as simultaneous light information and power transfer (SLIPT), has unique advantages such as abundant spectrum resources and low propagation divergence, compared with radio-frequency (RF) SWIPT. However, optical SWIPT faces many challenges in beam steering and receiver positioning/tracking. Resonant beams generated by spatially separated laser resonators (SSLR) have many advantages, including high power, self-aligned mobility, and intrinsic safety. It has been proposed as the carrier of wireless charging and communication. Using resonant beams, mobile electronic devices can be remotely charged and supported with high-rate data transfer. In this paper, we propose a mobile optical SWIPT system based on asymmetric SSLR and present the system optimization procedure. We also determine the boundary of the charging power and communication rate, and discuss the trade-off between power transfer and information transfer. Numerical results show that both the charging power and the communication rate of the optimized asymmetric system are much higher than those of the symmetric system in the previous work.