Experimental comparison of PAM, CAP, and DMT modulations in phosphorescent white LED transmission link

Abstract

In the paper, an experimental comparison of pulse amplitude, carrierless amplitude-phase, and discrete multitone modulations is carried in a visible light communications link employing white phosphorescent light-emitting diode (LED) as a transmitter. By changing the modulation index, the influence of LED nonlinearity on the performance is studied. The results indicate similar performance of pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM) and carrier-less amplitude-phase (CAP) (with a slight advantage of the former) and substantially worse performance of DMT.