Monette H. Khadr, Hany Elgala, "Augmented communications: spectral efficiency and security enhanced visible light communications by design," Chin. Opt. Lett. 18, 090601 (2020)

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Fig. 1. Block diagram detailing an ACom-based VLC system using OFDM, depicting the transmitter, receiver, and the optical channel in between.

Fig. 2. Example of the time-domain representation of an ACom signal, with an IFFT length of 16. The construction is showing the parameters and and their effect on the generated signal for a specific .

Fig. 3. Simulation results depicting the relative spectral efficiency gain of ACom versus various system parameters. (a) Modulation order at , (b) IFFT length at and , and (c) for various .

Fig. 4. BER versus SNR performance with the solid red line denoting the analytical performance and the remaining curves showing ACom at different for both the legitimate user (User) and the eavesdropper (Eve) at .

Fig. 5. Effective SNR reduction versus showing that at the effective SNR is reduced to only be 0.3 dB.

Fig. 6. Experimental setup of ACom using a USRP-N210 with two integrated daughterboards showing the optical frontends and the NUC used for ACom signal processing.

Fig. 7. Experimental BER performance at 4-QAM with an IFFT length of 64 for the legitimate user at where is equivalent to conventional DCO-OFDM transmission.

Fig. 8. Experimental BER performance of the eavesdropper as a function of and at an SNR level of 20 dB at 4-QAM with an IFFT length of 64.
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Table 1. Spectral Efficiency of Optical OFDM Techniques

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