Single Carrier Frequency Domain Equalization for Optical Wireless Communications

In this paper, we investigate the use of single carrier frequency domain equalization (SCFDE) over a optical wireless (OW) communication. Recently orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) has been applied to wireless optical communications. However, due to high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) the performance of OFDM can severely be affected by the nonlinear characteristics of light emitting diodes (LED). To avoid a PAPR problem, we present in this paper a modified form of SCFDE for optical communications. We propose three different ways of using SCFDE with optical communications and show that they exhibit lower PAPR and provide better bit-error rate (BER) performance in the presence of the LED nonlinearity.