As a new model that combines lighting and optical communication, visible light communication (VLC) has great market potential. It not only conforms to the national strategic for energy conservation and emission reduction, but also promotes the development and technological advancement of next-generation lighting and access networks. At the same time, with the development of light emitting diode (LED) technologies, LED has gained overwhelming applications in various fields, including lighting, TV and backlight board screen, display etc. In comparison with the traditional incandescent and fluorescent light bulbs, LEDs offer long life-space, much higher energy efficiency, high performance cost ratio and above all very fast switching capability, making VLC one of the hot topics of international competition.

Visible light communication has a wide range of applications, such as indoor and outdoor information networks, ubiquitous 3D positioning/navigation systems and specific safety networks. This presentation summarizes our latest achievements in visible light communication, introducing the emerging components of LED visible light communication, technologies and applications, including novel devices and components in VLC, high-speed underwater VLC system, the pre/post equalization based on machine learning, single-carrier CAP modulation formats, single-carrier Nyquist pulse shaping and DMT bit loading, spatial multiplexing and wavelength multiplexing.

About the Presenters: 

Nan Chi, Fudan University

Prof. Nan Chi received the B.S. degree and Ph.D degree in electrical engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China in 1996 and 2001, respectively. From 2001 to 2004, she worked as assistant professor at Technical University of Denmark. From 2005 to 2006, she was a research associate at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. Then in June 2006, she joined Huazhong University of Science and Technology, where she worked as a full professor. She joined the Fudan University since June 2008. She is the author or co-author of more than 300 papers. She has been awarded as the New Century Excellent Talents Awards from the Education Ministry of China, Shanghai Shu Guang scholarship, Japanese OKAWA intelligence Fund Award, Pujiang talent of Shanghai City, Ten Outstanding IT Young Persons awards of Shanghai City. Her research interests are in the area of optical packet/burst switching, coherent optical transmission and visible light communication.

Zabih Ghassemlooy, Northumbria University

Zabih Ghassemlooy received his BSc in electrical and electronics engineering from Manchester Metropolitan Univ. and his MSc and PhD from the Univ. of Manchester. In 2004, he joined Univ. of Northumbria as an Associate Dean (AD) for research in School of Engineering. From 2012-2014 he was AD for Research and Innovation, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, where he currently is Head of the Optical Communications Research Group. He was awarded Tan Chin Tuan Fellowship in Engineering from Nanyang Technological Univ. (2001), was a Research Fellow (2016) and a Distinguished Professor (2015) at Chines Academy of Science, visiting Professor at the Univ. Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (2013-17) and Huaqiao Univ. (2017-18). He has published over 785 papers, more than 92 keynote/invited talks, and supervised over 60 PhDs. Research interests include optical wireless communications, free space optics, visible light communications, radio over fibre-free space optics, and sensor networks.