Performance analysis for indoor optical wireless communication system / Norshahida Abdul Wahab

The worldwide demand for wireless communications is being met in many places by installed single-mode fiber networks. However, there is still a significant "first-mile" problem, which seriously limits the availability of broadband Internet access. Optical wireless communication (OWC) or free-space optical wireless communications (FSO) has emerged as a viable technology for bridging gaps in existing high-data rate communications networks, and as a temporary backbone for rapidly deployable mobile wireless communication infrastructure. FSO is widely regarded as the next generation high-speed wireless communication technology, and due to the security and high data rates is being considered for military systems. This thesis will review the link performance of the indoor optical wireless system. The optical wireless link was modeled and simulated using a commercial optical system simulator named OptSim by RSoft. The availability of simulation tools for FSO systems may help in engineering trade-off and optimization studies, in shortening cost.