Demonstration of a 64-chip OCDMA system using superstructured fiber gratings and time-gating detection

Author

Petropoulos, P. ; Wada, N. ; Teh, P.C. ; Ibsen, M. ; Chujo, W. ; Kitayama, K.-I. ; Richardson, D.J.

Author_Institution

Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Southampton Univ., UK

Volume

13

Issue

11

fYear

2001

Firstpage

1239

Lastpage

1241

Abstract

We investigate the benefits of using time-gating detection in an optical code-division multiple access (OCDMA) system that comprises bipolar 64-chip long superstructure fiber Bragg grating encoders and decoders. Transmission of the codes is demonstrated, and it is shown that correlation combined with time-gating detection can provide some resilience to the distorting effects of dispersion, as well as the multiple access interference.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; code division multiple access; decoding; encoding; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; 64-chip OCDMA system; bipolar 64-chip long superstructure fiber Bragg grating encoders; decoders; dispersion; distorting effects; multiple access interference; optical code-division multiple access system; superstructured fiber gratings; time-gating detection; Autocorrelation; Decoding; Dispersion; Encoding; Fiber gratings; Matched filters; Optical distortion; Optical filters; Optical pulses; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.959376

Filename

959376