Song, Yunbin2014-03-142014-03-142002-08-12etd-08212002-230202http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34679In this thesis, the optical communication systems for millimeter-scale sensing and communication devises known as "Smart Dust" are described and analyzed. A smart dust element is a self-contained sensing and communication system that can be combined into roughly a cubic-millimeter mote to perform integrated, massively distributed sensor networks. The suitable passive optical and fiber-optic communication systems will be selected for the further performance design and analysis based on the requirements for implementing these systems. Based on the communication link designs of the free-space passive optical and fiber-optic communication systems, the simulations for link performance will be performed.In CopyrightFiber-optic communicationSmart DustCCRFree-Space Optical CommunicationThesishttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08212002-230202/