Recent Progress in High-capacity Optical Wireless Communication

Optical wireless communication can surpass the capabilities of radio-based wireless communication in many respects. When using accurately steered infrared beams, it can offer fiber-equivalent high capacity at high user densities, while being highly secure, insensitive to EMI, and energy-efficient. This keynote talk presents recent advances in our indoor high-capacity beam-steering technologies for all-optical bi-directional wireless communication including accurate automatic self-calibrated user localization.