The book systematically introduces the visible light communication (VLC) technology in detail. Basic concepts and how to realize the system are both illustrated, including the transmitter, channel, and the receiver. In addition, a good many experimental results are presented to help readers further understand the VLC technologies. The upper-layer protocols of visible light communication system and the technology trends are also discussed. This book can be a good reference work for researchers, engineers, and graduate students in the fields of communications, LED, and optics.

Prof. Nan CHi received the B.S. degree and Ph.D degree in electrical engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China in 1996 and 2001, respectively. From July 2001 to December 2004, she worked as assistant professor at the Research Center COM, Technical University of Denmark. From January 2005 to April 2006, she was a research associate at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. Then in June 2006, she joined Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, where she worked as a full professor. She joined the Fudan University since June 2008, in School of Information Science and Engineering. She is the author or co-author of more than 200 papers. She has been the chair of APOC 2007 OSRT workshop and ACP 2010. She served as the technical program committee member of many conferences such as APOC 08, ICAIT09, ACP 2011, WOCC 2012 and ACP 2013. She has been awarded as the New Century Excellent Talents Awards from the Education Ministry of China, Shanghai Shu Guang scholarship, Japanese OKAWA intelligence Fund Award, Pujiang talent of Shanghai City, Ten Outstanding IT Young Persons awards of Shanghai City. Her research interests are in the area of coherent optical transmission, visible light communication and optical packet/burst switching.

Introduction.- Overview.- Section of visible light emission.- Visible light channel model.- Section of visible light Receive.- Visible light modulation techniques.- Visible light communication equalization.- High-speed VLC communication systems experiment.- Visible light communication protocol.- 163 visible light communication technology trends.