Underwater Wireless Optical Communication (UWOC)
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Date
2025
Authors
Bayan Shtaiwi
Hadeel Masri
Mayson Alawneh
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Abstract
Underwater wireless communication refers to transmitting data in unguided
water
environment through the use of wireless carriers, i.e., radio frequency wave, acoustic
wave, and optical wave. We focus, in this thesis, on the underwater wireless optical
communication (UWOC) that employs optical wave as the transmission carriers. I n
comparison to RF and acoustic counterparts, UWOC has a much higher transmission
bandwidth, thus providing much higher data rate. Due to this high speed
transmission advantage, UWOC has attracted considerable attention in recent years.
Many potential appl ications of UWOC systems have been proposed for
environmental monitoring, offshore exploration, disaster precaution, and military
operations. However, UWOC systems also suffer from severe absorption and
scattering introduced by underwater channel. In order to overcome these technical
challenges, several new system design approaches, which are different from the
conventional terrestrial free space optical communication, have been explored in
recent years.