Optical Wireless Communications Workshop

3rd IEEE Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications (OWC’12)
Co-located with IEEE Globecom 2012, Anaheim CA

Monday, December 3, 2012

In recent years we have seen a growing international interest in research and development in OWC systems. Traditionally, the OWC technology relies on high power solid state lasers or diode lasers for medium to long range applications. Recently we have seen remarkable advances in semiconductor sources such as light emitting diodes (LEDs) in visible light and ultraviolet wavelengths, multi-array light sources and detectors, tracking and steering. These advances provide huge potentials for short/medium range wireless communication applications at a low power and a low cost.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry working in emerging visible light communications (VLC) and ultraviolet communications (UVC) as well as the traditional wireless infrared communications (IRC) to present, share and discuss their latest research results.

View the presentation slides from the event.

Co-Chairs:
Jean Armstrong, Monash University
Harald Haas, University of Edinburgh
Thomas Little, Boston University
Mitsuji Matsumoto, Waseda University
Zhengyuan Xu, Tsinghua University

Technical Program Committee:

Jean Armstrong, Monash University, Australia Shlomi Arnon, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Tarik Borogovac, Boston University, USA Maite Brandt-Pearce, Univ. of Virginia, USA Neda Cvijetic, NEC Laboratories America, Inc., USA Hany Elgala, Boston University, USA Fary Ghassemlooy, Northumbia University, UK Roger Green, University of Warwick, UK Harald Haas, University of Edinburgh, UK Shinichiro Haruyama, Keio University, Japan Steve Hranilovic, McMaster University, Canada Tiffany Jing Li, Lehigh University, USA Thomas Kamalakis, Univ. of Athens, Greece Mohsen Kavehrad, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Valencia Joyner Koomson, Tufts University, USA Klaus-Dieter Langer, Heinrich Hertz Institute, Fraunhofer, Germany Erich Leitgeb, Graz University of Technology, Austria Xin Lin, Nakagawa Laboratories Inc, Japan Thomas Little, Boston University, USA Francisco Lopez-Hernandez, Universidad Politecnica, Madrid, Spain Stefan Mangold, Disney Research, USA Mitsuji Matsumoto, Waseda University, Japan Dominic O’Brien, University of Oxford, UK Brian Sadler, Army Research Laboratory, USA Murat Uysal, Ozyegin University, Turkey Joachim. W. Walewski, Siemens, Germany Zhengyuan Xu, Tsinghua University, China Takaya Yamazato, Nagoya University, Japan