An Integrated Illumination LED Driver and Optical Wireless Communications Repeater
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Abstract
Visible light communications (VLC) leverages optical bands to meet the escalating demands for wireless communication. This paper presents a new approach to address the challenges encountered in establishing an optical uplink and downlink relay for VLC systems. A multi-phase boost converter topology is developed to realize a repeater capable of receiving and amplifying infrared uplink signals and re-transmitting them across both infrared and visible spectra. Conventional commutating diodes within each phase of the converter are replaced with photodiodes, enabling the detection of infrared (IR) signals. The resultant photocurrent modulates the intensity of multiple emitters at output, enabling spatial summation and amplification of the re-transmitted signal. While the primary application is to establish an optical IR uplink to visible light broadcast system, the topology can also support alternative applications, such as optical backhauling/fronthauling by integrating IR emitters into the luminaire. Simulation and experimental results indicate that the integration of the repeater into a luminaire through this approach does not adversely impact the efficacy of the luminaire and for the tested configurations the repeater is capable of an end-to-end optical gain of 7 for IR signals with amplitudes of <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$1-10~\mathrm {mW}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.009 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".