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Academic Research into Wireless Optical Communications

• Nawras M. Aldibbiat - Sheffield Hallam University, UK - Dual Header Pulse Interval Modulation (DH-PIM).
  
  
• Prof. Shlomi Arnon - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel - Satellite laser communication, terrestrial point-to-point optical links.
  
  
• Prof. John R. Barry - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA - Modulation, coding and link design for wireless infrared links. Author of work on indoor wireless optical channel characterization as well as other seminal contributions to indoor wireless optical communications.
  
  
• Prof. Anthony C. Boucouvalas - Bournemouth University, United Kingdom- Modelling and simulation of optical wireless communication protocols. Channel noise modelling and eye safety requirements.
  
  
• Prof. Maite Brandt-Pearce - University of Virginia, USA - Wireless infrared indoor multi-user communications.
  
  
• Prof. Jeffrey B. Carruthers - Boston University, USA - Modelling and characterization of indoor wireless optical links, sub-carrier modulation techniques, angle diversity schemes.
  
  
• Prof. Pedro Castrillo - Universidad de Valladolid, Spain - Optoelectronic devices. Good tutorial and overview material available (site in Spanish).
  
  
• Communications Research Laboratory - Tokyo, Japan - a very brief description of the research taking place into eye-safe infrared communications over long range (4km). The sole Japeneses national laboratory into info-communications research.
  
  
• Prof. Christopher C. Davis - University of Maryland, USA - Free-space communications in the turbulant channel. Channel characterization, transmitter/receiver design, error control codes, turbulence generator.
  
  
• Prof. Z. Ghassemlooy - University of Northumbria, Newcastle, UK - Modulation and signalling on the wireless optical channel. See also Optical Communications Research Group.
  
  
• Shane M. Haas - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA - Space-time codes for turbulent free space optical links. Stearable agile beam technologies.
  
  
• A. R. Hayes - Sheffield Hallam University, UK - Experimental implementation of digital pulse interval modulation for diffuse optical channels.
  
  
• Steve Hranilovic - University of Toronto, Canada - Research into the development of high speed, inexpensive, short distance directed infrared links. Research primarily focused on modulation, coding and algorithms for the optical intensity channel.
  
  
• Prof. Joseph M. Kahn - University of California, Berkeley, USA - Research into a broad range of fields concerned with both indoor and outdoor free space links. A great resource for papers on the topic of wireless optical communications.
  
  
• Prof. Mohsen Kavehrad - Pennsylvania State University, USA- Channel characterization of the indoor wireless optical channel. Diffuser design, angle diversity receivers.
  
  
• Prof. Vladimir Kuz'kov - National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine - 155Mbps analog/digital transmission in visible and infrared range. See project overview.
  
  
• Brian S. Leibowitz - University of California, Berkeley, USA - low area, low power CMOS optical receivers fabricated in arrays with each pixel able to receive data at a few Mbps.
  
  
• Matt Last - University of California, Berkeley, USA - steered laser transmitter integrating an optical source, collimating lens, and a fast MEMS beamsteering mirror.
  
  
• Prof. Adriano J. C. Moreira - Universidade do Minho, Portugal - Indoor wireless optical channel characterization, modulation schemes, noise characterization.
  
  
• Prof. Khoman Phang - University of Toronto, Canada - Reseach into novel low-voltage front end pre-amps for indoor wireless optical communications.
  
  
• Prof. Kris Pister - University of California, Berkeley, USA - A sensing/communication platform inside a cubic millimeter with analog circuitry, power supply, bidirectional free-space optical link and a microprocessor. See Smart Dust project homepage.
  
  
• Michael Scott - University of California, Berkeley, USA - Low-power A-to-D for the Smart Dust project.
  
  
• C. K. See - Sheffield Hallam University, UK - Digital Pulse Interval Modulation - Code Division Multiple-Access (DPIM-CDMA) for optical wireless communication systems.
  
  
• Prof. Pavlos Theodorou - University of The Aegean, Greece - Modelling and simulation of ATM optical wireless LANs.
  
  
• Jin Wang - University of California, Berkeley USA - Covert wireless optical communications. Optimization of link protocol and experimental verification.
  
  
• Brett Warneke - University of California, Berkeley USA - Steered optical communication MEMs for the Smart Dust project project.
  
  
• Bahram Zand - University of Toronto, Canada - Novel low-voltage front end pre-amps as well as multi-level analog Viterbi detection for indoor wireless optical communications.
  
  
• Xiaoming Zhu - University of California, Berkeley USA - Free space communications through turbulent channels. Diversity techniques to combat turbulence induced fading.