Chinese Optics Letters
Co-Editors-in-Chief
Jing Xu, Boon S. Ooi, and Gong-Ru Lin
Vol. 17, Issue 10, 2019
Editor(s): Jing Xu, Boon S. Ooi, and Gong-Ru Lin
Year: 2019
Status: Published

Underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) has gained increasing research interest worldwide from both academic and industrial communities, because of its high bandwidth, compact antennas, low latency, cost-effectiveness, and low power consumption. In the underwater world, the wireless optical links can be complementary to or even more competitive than its acoustic counterpart. Nevertheless, the hostile underwater environment sets up natural obstacles to most information carriers, including the lightwave, even at the right wavelength. Much attention has been recently paid to this interesting and challenging area, leading to impressive progresses. Hence, we launched this focus issue to discuss recent advances and progress in UWOC, and aimed to further stimulate future advancements in this emerging field.

Contents 12 article(s)
Hybrid LD and LED-based underwater optical communication: state-of-the-art, opportunities, challenges, and trends [Invited]
Xuan Huang... Fang Yang and Jian Song|Show fewer author(s)

In this paper, the current research of an underwater optical wireless communication (UWOC) network is reviewed first. A hybrid laser diode (LD) and light-emitting diode (LED)-based UWOC system is then proposed and investigated, in

Chinese Optics Letters
Oct. 10, 2019, Vol. 17 Issue 10 100002 (2019)
Simulation and verification of pulsed laser beam propagation underwater using Markov chains [Invited]
Tianhua Zhou... Jian Ma, Tingting Lu, Guyu Hu, Tingwei Fan, Xiaopeng Zhu, Xiaolei Zhu and Weibiao Chen|Show fewer author(s)

One fast simulation method using Markov chains was introduced to simulate angular, energy, and temporal characteristics of pulsed laser beam propagation underwater. Angular dispersion of photons with a different number of collisio

Chinese Optics Letters
Oct. 10, 2019, Vol. 17 Issue 10 100003 (2019)
50 Gb/s PAM4 underwater wireless optical communication systems across the water–air–water interface [Invited]
Chung-Yi Li... Hai-Han Lu, Yong-Cheng Huang, Qi-Ping Huang, Jing-Yan Xie and Song-En Tsai|Show fewer author(s)

A 50 Gb/s four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM4) underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) system across the water–air–water interface is demonstrated in practice. In practical scenarios, laser beam misalignment due t

Chinese Optics Letters
Oct. 10, 2019, Vol. 17 Issue 10 100004 (2019)
Performance characterization of two-way multi-hop underwater networks in turbulent channels [Invited]
Fangyuan Xing... Hongxi Yin and Lianyou Jing|Show fewer author(s)

This Letter investigates the performance of the two-way multi-hop system for underwater optical wireless communications. With the decode-and-forward (DF) relaying, the two-way multi-hop system is modeled, where the effects of abso

Chinese Optics Letters
Oct. 10, 2019, Vol. 17 Issue 10 100005 (2019)
Robust UOWC systems against bubble-induced impairments via transmit/receive diversities [Invited]
Lian-Kuan Chen... Yingjie Shao and Rui Deng|Show fewer author(s)

We systematically investigate the bubble-induced performance degradation for underwater optical wireless communication (UOWC) with different bubble sizes and positions. By using different transmit and receive diversities, we inves

Chinese Optics Letters
Oct. 10, 2019, Vol. 17 Issue 10 100006 (2019)
Underwater wireless optical communication: why, what, and how? [Invited]
Jing Xu

Foreseeing the proliferation of underwater vehicles and sensors, underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) is a key enabler for ocean exploration, with strong competitiveness in short-range bandwidth-intensive applications.

Chinese Optics Letters
Oct. 10, 2019, Vol. 17 Issue 10 100007 (2019)
Effects of air bubbles on underwater optical wireless communication [Invited]
Daomin Chen... Jiemei Wang, Shangbin Li and Zhengyuan Xu|Show fewer author(s)

The received signal intensity fluctuation and communication performance of an underwater optical wireless communication (UOWC) system under the air bubble effects are experimentally investigated. For different bubble density and s

Chinese Optics Letters
Oct. 10, 2019, Vol. 17 Issue 10 100008 (2019)
Recent achievements on underwater optical wireless communication [Invited]
Giulio Cossu

The growing number of underwater activities is giving momentum to the development of new technologies, such as buoys, remotely operated vehicles, and autonomous underwater vehicles. The data collected by these vehicles need to be

Chinese Optics Letters
Oct. 10, 2019, Vol. 17 Issue 10 100009 (2019)
Absorption and scattering effects of Maalox, chlorophyll, and sea salt on a micro-LED-based underwater wireless optical communication [Invited]
Pengfei Tian... Honglan Chen, Peiyao Wang, Xiaoyan Liu, Xinwei Chen, Gufan Zhou, Shuailong Zhang, Jie Lu, Pengjiang Qiu, Zeyuan Qian, Xiaolin Zhou, Zhilai Fang, Lirong Zheng, Ran Liu and Xugao Cui|Show fewer author(s)

In this work, a blue gallium nitride (GaN) micro-light-emitting-diode (micro-LED)-based underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) system was built, and UWOCs with varied Maalox, chlorophyll, and sea salt concentrations were

Chinese Optics Letters
Oct. 10, 2019, Vol. 17 Issue 10 100010 (2019)
Nonlinear adaptive filters for high-speed LED based underwater visible light communication [Invited]
Nan Chi, and Fangchen Hu

Underwater visible light communication (UVLC) is expected to act as an alternative candidate in next-generation underwater 5G wireless optical communications. To realize high-speed UVLC, the challenge is the absorption, scattering

Chinese Optics Letters
Oct. 10, 2019, Vol. 17 Issue 10 100011 (2019)
High-speed underwater wireless optical communications: from a perspective of advanced modulation formats [Invited]
Chao Fei... Xiaojian Hong, Ji Du, Guowu Zhang, Yuan Wang, Xiaoman Shen, Yuefeng Lu, Yang Guo and Sailing He|Show fewer author(s)

In this paper, recent advances in underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) are reviewed for both LED- and LD-based systems, mainly from a perspective of advanced modulation formats. Volterra series-based nonlinear equalize

Chinese Optics Letters
Oct. 10, 2019, Vol. 17 Issue 10 100012 (2019)
The effect of turbulence on NLOS underwater wireless optical communication channels [Invited]
Mohammed Sait... Xiaobin Sun, Omar Alkhazragi, Nasir Alfaraj, Meiwei Kong, Tien Khee Ng and Boon S. Ooi|Show fewer author(s)

Conventional line-of-sight underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) links suffer from huge signal fading in the presence of oceanic turbulence due to misalignment, which is caused by variations in the refractive index in t

Chinese Optics Letters
Oct. 10, 2019, Vol. 17 Issue 10 100013 (2019)
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