Optical Wireless Systems: Technology, Trends and Applications

Optical Wireless Communication can resolve the imminent crunch of wireless service delivery networks. This tutorial addresses OWC application domains, wide coverage visible light and beam-steered infrared light communication technologies, techniques for wide field-of-view receivers, device localisation, and hybrid optical/radio networks.

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