Single-Photon Counting Receivers for Optical Wireless Communications in Future 6G Networks

Shenjie Huang*, Danial Chitnis, Cheng Chen, Harald Haas, Mohammad-Ali Khalighi, Robert K. Henderson, Majid Safari

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Optical wireless communication (OWC) offers several complementary advantages to radio-frequency wireless networks such as its massive available spectrum; hence, it is widely anticipated that OWC will assume a pivotal role in the forthcoming sixth generation wireless communication networks. Although significant progress has been achieved in OWC over the past decades, the outage induced by occasionally low received optical power continues to pose a key limiting factor for its deployment. In this work, we discuss the potential role of single-photon counting (SPC) receivers as a promising solution to overcome this limitation. We present an overview of the applications of SPC-based OWC systems in 6G networks, introduce their major performance-limiting factors, propose a performanceenhancement framework to tackle these issues, and identify critical areas of open problems for future research.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-7
JournalIEEE Communications Magazine
Early online date4 Dec 2023
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 4 Dec 2023

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