Optical Wireless Communications

Providing an overview of the developments in the field optical wireless communications, this work outlines the technologies including optical LANs, channel modelling, transceiver design, wireless multimedia, and applications. It is suitable for postgraduate students specialising in Wireless Communications, and engineers active in the field.

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Optical Wireless refers to the combined use of two technologies - conventional radio frequency wireless and optical fibre to telecommunications. It is a pervasive technology that can be found used in products from a television remote control to IrDA (Infra -- red Data Association) products. Optical Wireless products are not restricted to indoor use and have an impact on outdoor applications such as Broadband. Both optical and wireless are the leading technologies for current and future broadband and flexible communications. There have been many new developments in the technology, which are of interest to senior undergraduate and graduate engineering students. "Optical Wireless Communications" provides an overview of the recent developments in this field and highlights the on-going research in this important area. It focuses on issues of Optical Wireless Techniques as it relates to indoor and outdoor applications. With contributions from the leading experts in the field, this superb text outlines the newest technologies including optical LANs, channel modelling, transceiver design, wireless multimedia, bluetooth, and applications.
"Optical Wireless Communications" is essential reading for all postgraduate (MSc, PhD level) students specialising in Wireless Communications, companies interested in learning about and using the technology, and R&D engineers active in the field.