Design of dual-link (wide- and narrow-beam) LED communication systems.

We explore the design of an LED-based communication system comprising two free space optical links: one narrow-beam (primary) link for bulk data transmission and one wide-beam (beacon) link for alignment and support of the narrow-beam link. Such a system combines the high throughput of a highly directional link with the robust insensitivity to pointing errors of a wider-beam link. We develop a modeling framework for this dual-link configuration and then use this framework to explore system tradeoffs in power, range, and achievable rates. The proposed design presents a low-cost, compact, robust means of communication at short- to medium-ranges, and calculations show that data rates on the order of Mb/s are achievable at hundreds of meters with only a few LEDs.

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