Today, wireless infrared transmission has entered our homes, offices, industry and health care, with applications in the field of remote control, telemetry, and local communication. This book is about the underlying technology. As it is an outgrowth of my Ph.D. thesis, the emphasis is on fundamental aspects rather than industrial aspects, like the standardization effort by the IrDA 7]. I guess that this is not a drawback, as, eventually, the laws of physics apply to all of us As the applied radiation is not necessarily in the infrared, throughout the book we usually prefer the term optical...

Today, wireless infrared transmission has entered our homes, offices, industry and health care, with applications in the field of remote control, telemetry, and local communication. This book is about the underlying technology. As it is an outgrowth of my Ph.D. thesis, the emphasis is on fundamental aspects rather than industrial aspects, like the standardization effort by the IrDA 7]. I guess that this is not a drawback, as, eventually, the laws of physics apply to all of us As the applied radiation is not necessarily in the infrared, throughout the book we usually prefer the term optical...