King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Tien Khee Ng

Boon Siew Ooi

Bilal Janjua

Chao Shen

Aditya Prabaswara

Chao Zhao

Osman Mohammed Bakr

Ibrahim Dursun

Meiwei Kong

Chun Hong Kang

Hassan M Oubei

Mohamed Ebaid Abdrabou Hussein

Munir M Eldesouki

Lain-Jong Li

Lutfan Sinatra

Rami Tarek El Afandy

Omar Alkhazragi

Davide Priante

Marat Lutfullin

Xiaobin Sun

Yujian Guo

Ahmed Y Alyameni

Jung-Wook Min

Jungwook Min

Aloysius Wong

Boon Ooi

An autonomous mining system includes a real-time digital video transmission sub-system configured to obtain video streams from underground, and transfer the video streams to a control center located above ground; and an exploration and maintenance sub-system located underground, and configured to extract a resource and bring the resource to the surface, based exclusively on commands received from the control center through the real-time digital video transmission sub-system.

Autonomous mining system based on real-time digital video communication that uses ethernet and optical technologies

A visible-light communication and illumination array includes a substrate and plural surface-emitting superluminescent diodes, SLDs, distributed across the substrate. A first set of SLDs of the plural SLDs generates a first light beam having substantially a first wavelength, a second set of SLDs of the plural SLDs generates a second light beam having substantially a second wavelength, and a third set of SLDs of the plural SLDs generates a third light beam having substantially a third wavelength. The array further includes a controller configured to encode at least one of the first light beam, the second light beam and the third light beam to transmit information. A combination of the first light beam, the second light beam and the third light beam produces white light.

Wavelength-division multiplexing visible-light communication and lighting device and method

An optical wireless communication receiver includes one or more harvesting solar cells configured to transform light into electrical power; one or more communication solar cells configured to transform light into an electrical signal embedding information; a rechargeable battery configured to store the electrical power generated by the one or more harvesting solar cells; a communication module configured to decode the electrical signal generated by the one or more communication solar cells and extract the information; a first switch configured to connect the one or more harvesting solar cells to the rechargeable battery for a harvesting-first state, and to the communication module for a communication-second state; a second switch configured to connect the one or more communication solar cells to the communication module for a communication-first state, and to the rechargeable battery for a harvesting-second state; and a microprocessor configured to control the first and second switches.

Energy-autonomous optical wireless communication system

A device including a material including halide perovskite nanocrystals forming a film and configured to receive first electromagnetic radiation having a first wavelength emitted by an excitation source, the first electromagnetic radiation is modulated to include information prior to being received by the material, the material is configured to absorb the first electromagnetic radiation including the information and to emit second electromagnetic radiation having a second wavelength and also including the information, the second wavelength being in the visible range, and the first wavelength of the first electromagnetic radiation is shorter than the visible range; a detector configured to receive the second electromagnetic radiation and to extract the information; and a screen connected to the detector and configured to display the information.

Multifunctional light, data device, or combination and systems

A large-area, waveguide-based, high-speed ultraviolet and visible light photodetector system for optical wireless communication includes a substrate; plural, parallel, waveguides formed directly on the substrate and including a high quantum-yield wavelength-converting material of semiconductor nature; an optical coupling system optically connected to each one of the plural, parallel, waveguides; and a photodetector optically connected to the optical coupling system and configured to detect an outgoing light. The wavelength-converting material converts a first wavelength of an incoming light at high-speed, received by the plural, parallel, waveguides, into a second wavelength of the outgoing light. The first wavelength is different from the second wavelength, and the first and second wavelengths are between 200 and 800 nm.

Large-area waveguided photodetection for optical wireless communication

A method of forming an optoelectronic semiconductor device involves providing an amorphous substrate. A transparent and conductive oxide layer is deposited on the amorphous substrate. The transparent and conductive oxide layer is annealed to form an annealed transparent and conductive oxide layer having a cubic-oriented and/or rhombohedral-oriented surface. A nanorod array is formed on the cubic-oriented and/or rhombohedral-oriented surface of the annealed transparent and conductive oxide layer. The annealing of the transparent conductive oxide layer and the formation of the nanorod array are performed using molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). The nanorods of the nanorod array comprise a group-III material and are non-polar.

Optoelectronic semiconductor device with nanorod array

A free node to be deployed underwater for omnidirectional energy and data harvesting includes a housing that forms a sealed chamber; a wavelength-changing layer attached to an outside of the housing and configured to receive a first optical signal having a first wavelength range and to emit a second optical signal having a second wavelength range, different from the first wavelength range, wherein the first optical signal includes encoded data; a flexible solar cell wrapped around the housing, the flexible solar cell being configured to receive the second optical signal and generate an electrical signal; an energy storage module located in the chamber and configured to store electrical energy associated with the electrical signal; and a decoder located in the chamber and configured to receive the electrical signal and decode the encoded data. The first wavelength range is ultraviolet light and the second wavelength range is visible or infrared light.

Omnidirectional data and energy harvesting system and method in underwater wireless optical communication

A dislocation-free GaN/InGaN-based nanowires-LED epitaxially grown on a transparent, electrically conductive template substrate. The simultaneous transparency and conductivity are provided by a thin, translucent metal contact integrated with a quartz substrate. The light transmission properties of the translucent metal contact are tunable during epitaxial growth of the nanowires LED. Transparent light emitting diodes (LED) devices, optical circuits, solar cells, touch screen displays, and integrated photonic circuits can be implemented using the current platform.

Integration of III-Nitride nanowire on transparent conductive substrates for optoelectronic and electronic devices

Embodiments of the present disclosure describe a white light illumination system using InGaN-based orange nanowires (NWs) LED, in conjunction with a blue LD for high speed optical wireless communications. By changing the relative intensities of an ultrabroad linewidth orange LED and narrow-linewidth blue LD components, a hybrid LED/LD device achieves correlated color temperature (CCT) ranging from 3000 K to above 6000 K with color rendering index (CRI) values reaching 83.1. Orange-emitting NWs LED are utilized as an active-phosphor, while a blue LD was used for both color mixing and optical wireless communications.

Orange nanowire light-emitting diodes

A plastic optical fiber communication system includes a light source that emits a first signal having a first wavelength in a visible light spectrum, the first signal being encoded with information at a high data-rate of 0.1 to 10 Gbit/s; a pump laser system that emits a pump laser light having a second wavelength, different from the first wavelength; a perovskite-doped optical fiber excited by the pump laser light to generate an amplified spontaneous emission spectrum that encompasses the first wavelength so as to receive and amplify the first signal for generating an amplified output signal having the first wavelength; and a photodetector optically coupled to the perovskite-doped optical fiber, and configured to receive the amplified output signal at the high data-rate of 0.1 to 10 Gbit/s. The amplified output signal is encoded with the information.

Perovskite-doped fiber-amplifier for optical fiber communication using visible light

A method for transmitting information across a water-air interface with a ultraviolet (UV) beam, the method including emitting the UV beam in a first medium, with a first optical wireless communication device; measuring a scintillation index of the UV beam in a second medium, different from the first medium, at a second optical wireless communication device; selecting, based on a value of the scintillation index, a modulation scheme for the UV beam; and modulating the UV beam with the selected modulation scheme. The UV beam has a wavelength in a range of 100 to 400 nm.

Across water-air interface communication method and system

Devices for photoelectrodes for water splitting based on indium nanowires on flexible substrates as well as methods of manufacture by transferring nanowire arrays to flexible substrates.

Flexible artificial leaves for hydrogen production and methods for making

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide devices and systems including a halide perovskite and/or phosphor to produce and/or communicate using visible light, and the like.

A high-speed, wavelength-converting receiver that includes a housing; a high-speed, wavelength-converting layer attached to the housing and configured to absorb a first light having a first wavelength range and emit a second light having a second wavelength range, which is different from the first wavelength range; and a high-speed photodetector attached to the housing and having an active face configured to absorb the second light having the second wavelength range and generate an electrical signal. The active face of the photodetector is fully placed within the housing.

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Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Tien Khee Ng