Experimental verification and capacity prediction of FE-OCDMA using superimposed FBG

Author

Ayotte, Simon ; Rochette, Martin ; Magné, Julien ; Rusch, Leslie A. ; LaRochelle, Sophie

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. Laval, Quebec City, Que., Canada

Volume

23

Issue

2

fYear

2005

Firstpage

724

Lastpage

731

Abstract

This paper presents the experimental demonstration and simulation results of a frequency-encoded optical code-division multiple-access (FE-OCDMA) system using broad-band incoherent source, superimposed fiber Bragg gratings for encoding/decoding of unipolar m-sequence codes, and balanced detection. The bit-error rate is measured for up to four simultaneous users at 155 and 622 Mb/s. Exploiting the excellent match between simulation and experiment, the paper concludes with a prediction of the potential capacity of an optimized FE-CDMA system.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; code division multiple access; codes; decoding; error statistics; m-sequences; optical fibre communication; 155 Mbit/s; 622 Mbit/s; FE-OCDMA; balanced detection; bit-error rate; broad-band incoherent source; decoding; encoding; frequency-encoded optical code-division multiple-access; superimposed fiber Bragg gratings; unipolar m-sequence codes; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Bragg gratings; Decoding; Encoding; Fiber gratings; Frequency; Multiple access interference; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Fiber Bragg gratings; frequency encoding; intensity noise; optical-code-division multiple access (OCDMA);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2004.839984

Filename

1402549