Underwater Multi-Wavelength Optical Links With Blue Targets and Constraints: Opportunities and Challenges

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Hauptverfasser: Ndjiongue, Alain R., Dobre, Octavia A., Shin, Hyundong, Haas, Harald
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author Ndjiongue, Alain R.
Dobre, Octavia A.
Shin, Hyundong
Haas, Harald
author_facet Ndjiongue, Alain R.
Dobre, Octavia A.
Shin, Hyundong
Haas, Harald
contents Underwater optical wireless technologies offer multiple advantages over the acoustic technology. Acoustic signals, for instance, are susceptible to noise from marine sources due to marine life and human activities. This is not the case with optical signals. However, absorption and scattering significantly attenuate optical signals. This limits the communication range and requires higher transmission power or more sensitive receivers to detect transmitted light. Therefore, it is necessary to design underwater optical systems with a higher transmission rate and reduced attenuation. To this end, we introduce a framework for designing optical signaling constellations employing multi-wavelength light sources to account for the transmission distance and achievable rate. In particular, we redefine the color-shift keying (CSK) constraint region to target blue light and adapt to marine environments. We discuss an example of 4-point underwater CSK. The corresponding analytical results demonstrate the trade-offs between the symbol error probability, achievable rate, and transmission range of the proposed scheme.
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spellingShingle Underwater Multi-Wavelength Optical Links With Blue Targets and Constraints: Opportunities and Challenges
Ndjiongue, Alain R.
Dobre, Octavia A.
Shin, Hyundong
Haas, Harald
Signal Processing
Underwater optical wireless technologies offer multiple advantages over the acoustic technology. Acoustic signals, for instance, are susceptible to noise from marine sources due to marine life and human activities. This is not the case with optical signals. However, absorption and scattering significantly attenuate optical signals. This limits the communication range and requires higher transmission power or more sensitive receivers to detect transmitted light. Therefore, it is necessary to design underwater optical systems with a higher transmission rate and reduced attenuation. To this end, we introduce a framework for designing optical signaling constellations employing multi-wavelength light sources to account for the transmission distance and achievable rate. In particular, we redefine the color-shift keying (CSK) constraint region to target blue light and adapt to marine environments. We discuss an example of 4-point underwater CSK. The corresponding analytical results demonstrate the trade-offs between the symbol error probability, achievable rate, and transmission range of the proposed scheme.
title Underwater Multi-Wavelength Optical Links With Blue Targets and Constraints: Opportunities and Challenges
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15430