In situ method for power re-equalization of wavelength pulses inside of OCDMA codes

Osadola, Tolulope Babajide and Idris, Siti Khadijah and Glesk, Ivan and Sasaki, Kensuke and Gupta, Gyaneshwar (2011) In situ method for power re-equalization of wavelength pulses inside of OCDMA codes. IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 47 (8). 1053 - 1058. ISSN 0018-9197 (https://doi.org/10.1109/JQE.2011.2157305)

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Abstract

A simple in-situ method to equalize power among individual wavelengths pulses representing two-dimensional wavelength-hopping time-spreading OCDMA code originally generated by a fibre Bragg grating-based OCDMA encoder is presented. Experimental data obtained in a field-based multiuser OCDMA testbed shows that applying this method results in system performance enhancements which was demonstrated by observing improved bit error rate (BER) during the field trials.