Handbook of Optical Wireless Communication

Xizheng Ke, Doctor of Science, Second-Level Professor, Head of the Department of Information and Communication Systems at Xi'an University of Technology, and Deputy Director of the Key Laboratory of Military-Civilian Joint Construction of Intelligent Cooperative Networks in Shaanxi Province. Famous teacher in Shaanxi Province, Fellow of Chinese Institute of Electronics, Director of Chinese Optical Engineering Society, Executive Director of Shaanxi Optical Society. He received a Bachelor's degree from Shaanxi Institute of Technology in 1983 and a Doctor of Science degree from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1996. From 1997 to 2002, he conducted post-doctoral research at Xidian University and the Second Artillery Engineering College. Dr Xizheng Ke is a member of the editorial board of "Journal of Electronics", "Infrared and Laser Engineering", "Journal of Electronic Measurement and Instrument", "Laser Technology", "Applied Optics", "Journal of Xi'an University of Technology", "Journal of Time and Frequency" and "Journal of Atmospheric Science Research". He is the national expert for reviewing science and technology awards and a member of the disciplinary review group of the Shaanxi Academic Degrees Committee. In 2000, Dr Xizheng Ke won the Outstanding Young Scholar Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2009, he was awarded the title of "Outstanding Science and Technology Commissioner of Guangdong Province" by the Ministry of Science and Technology. In 2015, he was awarded the title of "A Golden Phoenix on Green Poplar" in Yangzhou City. In 2018, he won the China Industry-University-Research Innovation Award, and in 2019, he won the China Industry-University-Research Innovation Achievement Award. Since 2001, he has won 16 provincial and ministerial science and technology awards, including 1 first prize and 5 second prizes. He has obtained more than 20 nationally approved invention patents, published 9 monographs in Science Press, and published more than 400 academic papers in domestic and foreign journals. More than 30 PhD students have been trained under his direction.

The book focuses on optical wireless communication systems. It summarises the author's work on optical wireless communication during the implementation of relevant scientific research plans. The main contents include the research status and progress of optical wireless communication, including the author's own work in this field and the research progress of domestic and foreign scholars in related fields. The key technologies, key components, modulation and coding methods, influencing factors of coherent optical communication, underwater optical communication, visible light communication, and orbital angular momentum involved in wireless optical communication are analysed, and their research progress and development trends are presented. It is particularly suitable for readers interested in the field of wireless optical communications. This book can benefit researchers, engineers and graduate students in the field of telecommunications. Suitable for engineering and technical personnel involved in optical communications, university teachers, postgraduate students and advanced undergraduates.

1.Optical Communication: From Wired to Wireless.- 2.Wireless-Optical Communication.- 3.Research Progress on Satellite Laser-Communication Networks.- 4.Pulse-Like Position-Modulation Technology.- 5.Communication Lasers and Their Modulation Technology.- 6.Research Progress on Passive Modulation in Free-Space Optical Communication.- 7.Detectors and Their Noise Models.- 8.Adaptive-Threshold Detection Technology.- 9.Four-Quadrant Detector Light-Spot Detection Principle.- 10.Optical-Antenna Technologies.- 11.Research progress on one-to-many transmitting antennas for optical-wireless communication.- 12.Acquisition, Pointing, and Tracking.- 13.Spatial optical-fiber coupling technology.- 14.Atmospheric-turbulence models.- 15.Propagation of Partially Coherent Beams in Atmospheric Turbulence.- 16.Progress in Research on Channel Equalization in Wireless-Optical Communication.- 17.Error-correction coding.- 18.Wireless-Optical MIMO Technology and Space-Time Coding.- 19.Space-Time Coding.- 20.Experimental study on wireless-optical coherent communication.- 21.Adaptive-Optics Technology.- 22.Mode Methods in Adaptive Optics.- 23.Optical Phase-Locked Loops.- 24.Deformable Mirrors and Their Control Algorithms.- 25.Liquid-Crystal Spatial Light Modulators and Their Applications.- 26.Mixers.- 27.Principles and Development of Optical Amplifiers.- 28.Key Technologies in Underwater Wireless-Optical Communication.- 29.Principles and Research Progress on LEDs.- 30.Indoor Visible-Light Communication and Its Heterogeneous Fusion Networks.- 31.Indoor Visible-Light Positioning Technology.- 32.Research Progress on Visible-Light Communication Uplinks.- 33.Research Progress on Indoor Visible Light-Source Layouts.- 34.Ultraviolet Non-Line-of-Sight Communication.- 35.Research Progress on OWC/RF Hybrid Communication Systems.- 36.Orbital-Angular-Momentum Beam Techniques.- 37.Research Progress on Aircraft-Relay Wireless-Optical Communications.- 38.Research Progresson Optical-Wireless Communication in Industrial Internets.