Optical FE-OWC (fiber enabled optical wireless communication) system and method

Abstract

The invention discloses an optical FE-OWC (fiber enabled optical wireless communication) system and method. According to the invention, an optical antenna composed of an optical fiber transceiving port array and a lens or a reflector is adopted, and optical beams in different directions are generated, so full-beam coverage of a communication area is realized; an optical antenna is connected with an optical transceiving link through an optical fiber, the optical transceiving link realizes mutual conversion of an optical signal and an electric signal, and a baseband signal processing unit in electric signal connection with the optical transceiving link realizes user scheduling, transceiving signal processing and the like. And multi-user MIMO or large-scale MIMO or beam division multiple access optical wireless communication is implemented between the base station and the user terminal by using the optical beams. According to the FE-OWC system and the FE-OWC method provided by the invention, the ultra-high-speed user data transmission and system throughput can be supported; the method and system are simple in operation and low in complexity, can be used for constructing optical wireless communication systems with huge-capacity hot spot coverage and various special applications, and can be used for extending an optical fiber communication network to wireless coverage to realize mobile optical communication and all-optical communication supporting mobility.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to an optical wireless communication technology, in particular to an optical antenna, a fiber enabled optical wireless communication (FE-OWC, fiber enabled optical wireless communication) device, a FE-OWC system and a method, and belongs to the technical field of mobile communication. Background technique [0002] With the development of mobile communications, the number of mobile devices and the demand for wireless transmission rates have increased rapidly, and emerging applications such as virtual reality and augmented reality require extremely high transmission rates. In post-5G and 6G mobile communication systems, the single-user transmission rate needs to be as high as 10Gbps, and the system throughput needs to reach 1Tbps. However, the traditional low-band spectrum resources are seriously in short supply, unable to support ultra-high-speed mobile communications, and need to use higher-band spectrum resources. Optica...

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[0005] Purpose of the invention: Aiming at the bottleneck problems of limited number of service user terminals, small coverage, high complexity of direction calibration, and one-way transmission faced by existing optical wireless communication, the purpose of the invention is to provide an optical antenna, and based on the The FE-OWC device, FE-OWC system and method of the optical antenna can make full use of the rich spectrum resources of the optical band, realize full coverage of signals in the communication area and support high-speed two-way communication of terminal mobility, and meet the needs of future mobile communication applications

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