Evolution of OWC: A Collaborative Contour Across Various Sectors

Optical Wireless Communication (OWC), has been proposed as a potential technology for applications where the legacy radio frequency communication may not be suitable or cannot provide the required quality-of-service or security. The OWC has proven its dominance in a wide range of applications where demand for cost-effectiveness, high bandwidth, and relatively high security are predominant. In particular, it has been playing a significant role in ground-to-space, and space-to-ground communications, and is emerging as a viable system for last-meter and last-mile access networks. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of several of these application areas, which are referred to as sectors.