Kazemi, Hossein; Sarbazi, Elham; Crisp, Michael; El-Gorashi, Taisir E. H.; Elmirghani, Jaafar M. H.; Penty, Richard V.; White, Ian H.; Safari, Majid; Haas, Harald
A Novel Terabit Grid-of-Beam Optical Wireless Multi-User Access Network With Beam Clustering Journal Article
In: IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 73, no. 10, pp. 9152–9167, 2025, ISSN: 0090-6778, 1558-0857.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: LRDC, Network management and orchestration, Optical wireless communication, Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers
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title = {A Novel Terabit Grid-of-Beam Optical Wireless Multi-User Access Network With Beam Clustering},
author = {Hossein Kazemi and Elham Sarbazi and Michael Crisp and Taisir E. H. El-Gorashi and Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani and Richard V. Penty and Ian H. White and Majid Safari and Harald Haas},
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Ahmad, Rizwana; Nieminen, Arttu; Osahon, Isaac N. O.; Caglayan, Humeyra; Haas, Harald
Experimental Demonstration of 75 Gbps OAM Multiplexing System Using 1310 nm VCSEL Transmitter Proceedings Article
In: 2025 European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), pp. 1–4, IEEE, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2025, ISBN: 9798331595319.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: LRDC, Optical wireless communication, Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers
@inproceedings{ahmad_experimental_2025,
title = {Experimental Demonstration of 75 Gbps OAM Multiplexing System Using 1310 nm VCSEL Transmitter},
author = {Rizwana Ahmad and Arttu Nieminen and Isaac N. O. Osahon and Humeyra Caglayan and Harald Haas},
url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11263377/},
doi = {10.1109/ECOC66593.2025.11263377},
isbn = {9798331595319},
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date = {2025-09-01},
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address = {Copenhagen, Denmark},
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Krishnamoorthy, Aravindh; Safi, Hossein; Younus, Othman; Kazemi, Hossein; Osahon, Isaac N. O.; Liu, Mingqing; Liu, Yi; Babadi, Sina; Ahmad, Rizwana; Ihsan, Asim; Majlesein, Behnaz; Huang, Yifan; Herrnsdorf, Johannes; Rajbhandari, Sujan; McKendry, Jonathan J. D.; Tavakkolnia, Iman; Caglayan, Humeyra; Helmers, Henning; Turnbull, Graham; Samuel, Ifor D. W.; Dawson, Martin D.; Schober, Robert; Haas, Harald
Optical Wireless Communications: Enabling the Next-Generation Network of Networks Journal Article
In: IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 20–39, 2025, ISSN: 1556-6080.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Bandwidth, Fiber optics, Laser beams, Optical fiber communication, Optical fibers, Optical transmitters, Terahertz communications, Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, Wireless communication, Wireless networks
@article{krishnamoorthy_optical_2025,
title = {Optical Wireless Communications: Enabling the Next-Generation Network of Networks},
author = {Aravindh Krishnamoorthy and Hossein Safi and Othman Younus and Hossein Kazemi and Isaac N. O. Osahon and Mingqing Liu and Yi Liu and Sina Babadi and Rizwana Ahmad and Asim Ihsan and Behnaz Majlesein and Yifan Huang and Johannes Herrnsdorf and Sujan Rajbhandari and Jonathan J. D. McKendry and Iman Tavakkolnia and Humeyra Caglayan and Henning Helmers and Graham Turnbull and Ifor D. W. Samuel and Martin D. Dawson and Robert Schober and Harald Haas},
url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10974735},
doi = {10.1109/MVT.2025.3555366},
issn = {1556-6080},
year = {2025},
date = {2025-06-01},
urldate = {2025-10-08},
journal = {IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine},
volume = {20},
number = {2},
pages = {20–39},
abstract = {Optical wireless communication (OWC) is a promising technology anticipated to play a key role in the next-generation network of networks (NoNs), especially as a complementary technology to traditional radio-frequency (RF) communications, for enhancing networking capabilities beyond conventional terrestrial networks. OWC is already a mature technology with diverse usage scenarios and can enable integrated applications via wireless access and backhaul networks, dynamic drone and satellite networks, underwater networks, inter- and intrasystem interconnecting networks, and vehicular communication networks. Furthermore, novel and emerging technological opportunities such as photovoltaic cells, orbital angular momentum-based modulation, optical reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, organic light-emitting and photo diodes, and recent advances in ultraviolet communications can help to enhance future OWC capabilities even further. Moreover, OWC networks can also support value-added services such as enhanced positioning and gesture recognition. Hence, OWC provides unique functionalities that can play a crucial role in building convergent and resilient future NoNs alongside RF and optical fiber technologies.},
keywords = {Bandwidth, Fiber optics, Laser beams, Optical fiber communication, Optical fibers, Optical transmitters, Terahertz communications, Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, Wireless communication, Wireless networks},
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Safi, Hossein; Dabiri, Mohammad Taghi; Babadi, Sina; Tavakkolnia, Iman; Haas, Harald
3D Coverage Performance of VCSEL Arrays in Indoor OWC Systems for 6G Applications Proceedings Article
In: IEEE INFOCOM 2025 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), pp. 1–6, IEEE, London, United Kingdom, 2025, ISBN: 9798331543709.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: 6G, LRDC, Network management and orchestration, Optical wireless communication, Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers
@inproceedings{safi_3d_2025,
title = {3D Coverage Performance of VCSEL Arrays in Indoor OWC Systems for 6G Applications},
author = {Hossein Safi and Mohammad Taghi Dabiri and Sina Babadi and Iman Tavakkolnia and Harald Haas},
url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11152841/},
doi = {10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS65812.2025.11152841},
isbn = {9798331543709},
year = {2025},
date = {2025-05-01},
urldate = {2026-02-05},
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pages = {1–6},
publisher = {IEEE},
address = {London, United Kingdom},
keywords = {6G, LRDC, Network management and orchestration, Optical wireless communication, Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
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Liu, Yi; Ali, Wajahat; Chen, Rui; Bamiedakis, Nikolaos; White, Ian H.; Haas, Harald; Crisp, Michael; Penty, Richard V.
A Scalable VCSEL-Array Optical Wireless Transmitter With Experimental Multi-Beam Prototype Journal Article
In: Journal of Lightwave Technology, pp. 1–7, 2025, ISSN: 1558-2213.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Arrays, Free-space optical communication, Interference, Lenses, LRDC, Microoptics, Optical arrays, optical communication equipment, Optical fibers, Optical receivers, Optical transmitters, Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, verticalcavity surface-emitting lasers, Wireless communication
@article{liu_scalable_2025,
title = {A Scalable VCSEL-Array Optical Wireless Transmitter With Experimental Multi-Beam Prototype},
author = {Yi Liu and Wajahat Ali and Rui Chen and Nikolaos Bamiedakis and Ian H. White and Harald Haas and Michael Crisp and Richard V. Penty},
url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11189981},
doi = {10.1109/JLT.2025.3617131},
issn = {1558-2213},
year = {2025},
date = {2025-01-01},
urldate = {2025-10-17},
journal = {Journal of Lightwave Technology},
pages = {1–7},
abstract = {A 5×5 VCSEL array-based optical wireless communication multi-beam transmitter is designed and simulated. Each element of the array addresses a separate spatial attocell. A microlens-array based homogenizer achieves uniform coverage at the receiver plane from each multi-mode VCSEL output. 1 m2 total coverage is achieved with each attocell covering an area of 400 cm2 at a range of 3 m. For a proof-of-concept demonstration a 1×3 channel VCSEL array-based transmitter prototype is experimentally tested. The performance is verified by demonstrating three channels achieving ∼ 0.12 mW/m2 uniform power with negligible optical interference to adjacent attocells (<-14 dB). With a simple receiver design using low cost, off-the-shelf components, each channel of the transmitter achieves ∼10 Gb/s throughput using OFDM within 7 cm lateral range and > 4 Gb/s within 12 cm lateral range at 3 m. The transmitter meets eye-safety restrictions and could be scaled to 250 Gb/s aggregate data rate by employing all 25 VCSELs with independent OFDM modulation.},
keywords = {Arrays, Free-space optical communication, Interference, Lenses, LRDC, Microoptics, Optical arrays, optical communication equipment, Optical fibers, Optical receivers, Optical transmitters, Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, verticalcavity surface-emitting lasers, Wireless communication},
pubstate = {published},
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Qidan, Ahmad Adnan; Alazwary, Khulood; El-Gorashi, Taisir; Safari, Majid; Haas, Harald; Penty, Richard V.; White, Ian H.; Elmirghani, Jaafar M. H.
BIA Transmission in Rate Splitting-based Optical Wireless Networks Journal Article
In: IEEE Transactions on Communications, pp. 1–1, 2025, ISSN: 0090-6778, 1558-0857.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: LRDC, Optical wireless communication, Rate splitting, Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers
@article{qidan_bia_2025,
title = {BIA Transmission in Rate Splitting-based Optical Wireless Networks},
author = {Ahmad Adnan Qidan and Khulood Alazwary and Taisir El-Gorashi and Majid Safari and Harald Haas and Richard V. Penty and Ian H. White and Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani},
url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11164782/},
doi = {10.1109/TCOMM.2025.3610166},
issn = {0090-6778, 1558-0857},
year = {2025},
date = {2025-01-01},
urldate = {2025-10-17},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Communications},
pages = {1–1},
keywords = {LRDC, Optical wireless communication, Rate splitting, Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
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Liu, Mingqing; Kazemi, Hossein; Safari, Majid; Tavakkolnia, Iman; Haas, Harald
Energy Efficiency Comparison of THz and VCSEL-Based OWC for 6G Miscellaneous
2024.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: 6G, Energy Efficiency, LRDC, Optical wireless communication, Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers
@misc{liu_energy_2024,
title = {Energy Efficiency Comparison of THz and VCSEL-Based OWC for 6G},
author = {Mingqing Liu and Hossein Kazemi and Majid Safari and Iman Tavakkolnia and Harald Haas},
url = {https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/375123},
doi = {10.17863/CAM.112916},
year = {2024},
date = {2024-10-01},
urldate = {2024-10-30},
publisher = {Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository},
abstract = {Both optical wireless communications (OWC) and Terahertz (THz) communication systems are regarded as enablers for the 6th-generation (6G) networks. Facing the 6G requirements of ultra-dense and high-rate networks, vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL)-based OWC is considered as a strong contender for providing high data rates with ultra-small cells. Hence, this work quantitatively compares VCSEL-based OWC and THz communication in terms of energy efficiency. We derive the energy efficiency model for realistic systems by including non-linearity power conversion of VCSEL and area-bandwidth tradeoff of the photodiode (PD) for OWC, and gain and power loss in cascaded THz systems, respectively. Then, we formulate the similarity of embedding optical lenses into VCSEL-based system and high-directivity antenna into THz system to achieve high channel gain, i.e., leading to a gain-coverage tradeoff for both systems. Taking account of this performance tradeoff in analyzing two systems' energy efficiency, we show numerically the superiority of the VCSEL-based system, while the THz system is more robust in long-range scenarios due to a more relaxed relationship between pointing error and transmission distances. This study provides design guidelines for selecting appropriate technologies tailored to various 6G application scenarios from an energy efficiency perspective.},
keywords = {6G, Energy Efficiency, LRDC, Optical wireless communication, Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {misc}
}