Close
Online Seminar | Recent Advancements in Optical Wireless Communications
03 June 2020, 11:30 am–12:30 pm
In this seminar Professor Harald Haas one of the key figures in Optical Wireless Communications, often referred to as LiFi, will present recent advancements in the field
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All | UCL staff | UCL students
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
-
Robert Thompson – Institute of Communications and Connected Systems
Recent Advancements in Optical Wireless Communications
In this talk, we will discuss key advancements in optical wireless communications showing a pathway to terabit optical wireless connectivity. We will review white light sources based on blue lasers and show their potential for long-range (hundreds of meters) and high speed (tens of gigabit) wireless connectivity.
A critical element in optical wireless communications is the receiver. To this end, we show results obtained from digital single-photon avalanche diodes (SPAD) arrays in CMOS, and highlight sensitivity gains in the region of 10 dB. Lastly, we present experimental results of optical wireless systems which use solar cells as data detectors and demonstrate their capability to receive data at speeds greater than 1 Gbps.
ICCS Chair
This session will be chaired by: Professor Izzat Darwazeh, ICCS Director
Attending the seminar
The Seminar will be held on the Zoom platform. Details of how to access Zoom can be found on their website.
Attending the Seminar
The Seminar will be held on the Zoom platform. Details of how to access Zoom can be found on their website.
Join the seminar by clicking on this link.
The meeting ID is: 916 1006 7102
Meeting Password: will be distributed to members of ICCS or can be requested by email.
About the Speaker
Prof Harald Haas
Professor of Mobile Communications at The University of Edinburgh
Harald Haas FREng FRSE FIEEE FIET received the Ph.D. degree from The University of Edinburgh in 2001. He currently is the Professor of Mobile Communications at The University of Edinburgh and the Director of the LiFi Research and Development Centre. Haas is the Initiator, co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of pureLiFi Ltd..
He has co-authored more than 500 conference and journal papers, including papers in Science and Nature Communications. Haas’ main research interests are in optical wireless communications, hybrid optical wireless and RF communications, spatial modulation, and interference coordination in wireless networks. His team invented spatial modulation.
He introduced LiFi to the public at an invited TED Global talk in 2011. LiFi was listed among the 50 best inventions in TIME Magazine in 2011. He gave a second TED Global lecture in 2015 on the use of solar cells as LiFi data detectors and energy harvesters. In 2016, he received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the International Solid State Lighting Alliance.
In 2019 he was recipient of IEEE Vehicular Society James Evans Avant Garde Award. In 2017 he received a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.
More about Prof Harald Haas