Optical equalization in SiPM-based underwater optical communication system

Y Zhang, X Yang, X Wang, C Zhang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, a spatial optical equalization method based on the Engineered Diffuser (ED) is
proposed to mitigate the nonlinearity degradation caused by the dead time of a silicon …

Time-Controlled SPAD Receivers in Optical Wireless Communication System

J Liu, W Jiang, S Kumar, MJ Deen - IEEE Photonics Journal, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) capable of single photon detection are promising
optical sensors for use as receivers in optical wireless communication (OWC) systems. In …

High speed and high sensitivity InGaAs/InAlAs single photon avalanche diodes for photon counting communication

Y Tian, Q Li, W Ding, D Wu, Z Lin… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A planar InGaAs/InAlAs single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) was fabricated and
comprehensively characterized. At room temperature, the dark count rate is 3.1 MHz at …

SPAD-based optical wireless communication with signal pre-distortion and noise normalization

S Huang, M Safari - IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in exploring the application of single-
photon avalanche diode (SPAD) in optical wireless communication (OWC). As a photon …

Underwater Photon-Counting Systems under Poisson Shot Noise: Rate Analysis and Power Allocation

Y Chen, X Zhou, W Ni, X Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photon counting is an effective detection technique for weak optical signals in underwater
optical wireless communications (UOWC). This paper proposes a new approach for power …

Time-coordinated SPAD-based receiver for high-speed optical wireless communication

Y Mu, C Wang, Y Xu, X Du, Q Pan, H Zhang… - Optics Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
In an optical wireless communication system (OWC), the single photon avalanche diode
(SPAD) can effectively improve the sensitivity of the receiver. However, the inter-slot …

Time-gated circuit for SPAD-based OWC

J Liu, W Jiang, MJ Deen - 2022 IEEE Photonics Conference …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A Time-gated (TG) circuit is designed to generate a TG signal applied in SPAD-based
optical wireless communication (OWC) system. The simulation results demonstrate that the …

Spread spectrum photon counting compressed depth imaging method

S Shen, L Wu, XL Sun, S Su, L Zhao, TY Mao, T Ying… - Applied Optics, 2025 - opg.optica.org
The pseudo-random spread spectrum photon counting three-dimensional imaging
community is able to acquire detailed time-correlated photon counting depth profiles by …

A novel signal detection method for photon-counting communications with nonlinear distortion effects

C Wang, Z Xu, J Wang, J Li, W Mou, H Zhu, J Zhao… - Optics …, 2025 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a method for estimating and detecting optical signals in practical
photon-counting receivers. There are two important aspects of non-perfect photon-counting …

Gate-width optimisation based on time-gated single photon avalanche diode receiver for optical wireless communications

Y Mu, X Du, C Wang, Z Ye, Y Zhu - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Using a single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) as a receiver in an optical wireless
communications (OWC) system can effectively expand the transmission distance. However …