Performance Evaluation of CDMA-DMT for 1-mm SI-POF Short-Range Transmission Links

Author

Pikasis, Evangelos ; Karabetsos, Sotiris ; Raptis, Nikos ; Syvridis, Dimitris

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Telecommun., Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece

Volume

24

Issue

22

fYear

2012

Firstpage

2042

Lastpage

2045

Abstract

In this letter, the code division multiple access discrete multitone (CDMA-DMT) modulation scheme is experimentally investigated for transmission over an intensity modulation direct-detection link of 100 m of 1-mm polymethyl methacrylate step-index plastic optical fibers. CDMA-DMT is a multicarrier modulation scheme combining the merits of both CDMA and DMT and in which CDMA is utilized to perform a spreading operation of the data symbols in the frequency domain using orthogonal spreading codes. It is experimentally shown that CDMA-DMT performs better than conventional DMT in terms of achieved bit-error rate, for transmission rates in the range of 1 Gbps and over the same experimental configuration.

Keywords

code division multiple access; error statistics; fibre reinforced plastics; intensity modulation; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; orthogonal codes; CDMA DMT; SI-POF; bit error rate; bit rate 1 Gbit/s; code division multiple access discrete multitone; data symbols; intensity modulation direct detection link; multicarrier modulation scheme; orthogonal spreading codes; performance evaluation; polymethyl methacrylate; short range transmission links; size 1 mm; step-index plastic optical fibers; Bit error rate; Discrete Fourier transforms; Multiaccess communication; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Code division multiple access (CDMA); Hadamard; Walsh; discrete multitone (DMT); optical fiber; short-range networking; spreading codes; step-index plastic optical fibers (SI-POF);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2012.2218800

Filename

6327332