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On-light: optical social network

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Social networks are a recent phenomenon of communication, with a high prevalence of young users. This concept serves as a motto for a multidisciplinary project, which aims to create a simple communication network, using light as the transmission medium. Mixed team, composed by students from secondary and higher education schools, are partners on the development of an optical transceiver. A LED lamp array and a small photodiode are the optical transmitter and receiver, respectively. Using several transceivers aligned with each other, this con guration creates a ring communication network, enabling the exchange of messages between users. Through this project, some concepts addressed in physics classes from secondary schools (e.g. photoelectric phenomena and the properties of light) are experimentally veri ed and used to communicate, in a classroom or a laboratory.

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Free space communication Visible light LED Microprocessor Communication protocol Social networking

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DIONÍSIO, Rogério P. (2013) - On-light: optical social network. In Education and Training in Optics an Photonics Conference, 12, 23 de julho, Porto. [S. l.] : SPIE. p. 1-9

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Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers

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