Chinese Journal of Lasers, Volume. 41, Issue 11, 1105007(2014)
Research of Adaptive Predistortion Technique for Nonlinear LEDs with Memory Effects
In a visible light communication (VLC) system, the light-emitting diode (LED) is the major source of nonlinearity and exhibits memory effects due to the in-band non-flat frequency response. The LED nonlinearity with memory effects degrades the error vector magnitude (EVM) and bit error rate (BER) in the VLC system. In general, the predistortion technique is mostly utilized to compensate for the LED nonlinearity and thus enhances the performance of the VLC system. However, the existing predistortion techniques cannot work adaptively and neglect the LED memory effects. A new predistortion architecture is proposed by adding a feedback path to obtain the LED output signal and estimating the LED nonlinearity with memory effects by memory polynomial model adaptively. The simulation results show that the proposed technique outperforms the existing methods in terms of BER.
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Yao Saijie, Xu Haoyu, Wang Liangyou, Zhou Ting, Qian Hua. Research of Adaptive Predistortion Technique for Nonlinear LEDs with Memory Effects[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2014, 41(11): 1105007
Category: Optical communication
Received: Jun. 3, 2014
Accepted: --
Published Online: Oct. 8, 2014
The Author Email: Saijie Yao (saijie.yao@shrcwc.org)