Abstract:Underwater optical communication has advantages such as high data rate and low link delay, however, it is limited by turbidity of water and difficulty in alignment. Acoustic communication can be used to form a hybrid acoustic and optical communication system due to its complementarity. However, this kind of system uses independent modulation and demodulation to realize sound and light, which requires high hardware cost. In this paper, a high-speed communication scheme of short-range underwater Optical-Acoustic integration is proposed. The scheme adopts the same 16-PPM modulation mode and supports acoustic and optical communication links in an integrated way based on the same set of modulation and demodulation modules. It is realized through the integration of acoustic and optical communication modes. With lower system hardware complexity to provide a short range high-speed link with better pointing characteristics, water quality, environmental noise adaptability. The pool experiment verifies that the system in this paper can realize error-free communication at 1Mbps data rate in short-range communication, both acoustic and optical communication links