Seamless VLC and ULEAPS fiber transmission employing tapered Ag/AgI coated hollow waveguide based beam shaping

Abstract

For the first time, we demonstrated transparent 1.16Gbit/s commercial LEDs based visible light transmission from free space to special designed ULEAPS fiber using an Ag/AgI coated hollow waveguide for visible light beam shaping. VLC is no longer restrained by line of sight which can help solve continuous growth of data rate demand over the next decades.