20 Mb/s Experimental Demonstration Using Modulated 460 nm Blue LED for Underwater Wireless Optical Communications (UOWC)

Abstract

This paper has demonstrated an experimental low power consumption underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) system with 460-nm LZ1-00DB00 Blue LED and avalanche photodetector. With the LZ1-00DB00 Blue LED operating at a driving current of 1200 mA with an optical power of 5280 mW, UWOC link offering a data rate up to 20 Mb/s over a transmission range of 5 meters under an underwater channel link. The measured bit-error rate (BER) is 3 10-3 which pass well the forward error correction (FEC) threshold.