Abstract
In this paper, we suggest the use of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) for hybrid Radio Frequency (RF) Visible Light Communications (VLC). The signal is transmitted from a transmitter T to a relay C using RIS. RIS is implemented as a transmitter or a reflector between T and C. The relay node C decodes the received signal and transmits it to the receiver R using a VLC link. The proposed VLC/RF communications using RIS offers 20-45 dB gain with respect to conventional RF/VLC when the number of reflectors N is varied from N = 16 to N = 256.