Optical Wireless Communication system for particle detectors in high energy physics

Optical Wireless Communication (OWC) system for particles detector can be a viable solution for reducing the complexity of the optical fibre network used to extract the data from the detector. In this work we present the initial study of the tolerance to misalignment for the OWC system under investigation. We observed that using collimators of beam waist from 0.35. mm to 3.5. mm we can obtain tolerance in range from ±0.25mm to ±0.8mm. We also observed using ray trace simulation that both transmitting power and tolerance can be improved by using optimized lens at the receiver having VCSEL as transmitting source. © 2015 Elsevier B.V.