Incoherent ultrafast OCDMA receiver design with 2 ps all-optical time gate to suppress multiple-access interference

Glesk, I. and Prucnal, P.R. and Andonovic, I. (2008) Incoherent ultrafast OCDMA receiver design with 2 ps all-optical time gate to suppress multiple-access interference. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 14 (3). pp. 861-867. ISSN 1077-260X (https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2008.916532)

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Abstract

We have investigated both theoretically and experimentally the elimination of multiple-access interference (MAI) in an incoherent optical code-division multiple access (OCDMA) system by using a novel incoherent dual code OCDMA receiver incorporating an ultrafast all-optical time gate (AOTG). A theoretical analysis was performed based on (3,11) frequency-hopping time-spreading OCDMA codes with a chip size of 73 ps. To experimentally demonstrate the elimination of MAI, the novel receiver comprising an ultrafast 2 ps-AOTG was developed and tested in a representative OCDMA network testbed. Experimental measurements confirmed by simulations show error-free [bit error rate (BER) < 10 -12] operation for up to four users. Simulations also predict that receivers equipped with 2 ps-AOTG will more than triple the number of simultaneous users without degrading BER.

ORCID iDs

Glesk, I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3176-8069, Prucnal, P.R. and Andonovic, I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9093-5245;
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