Optical spectral amplitude CDMA communication

Author

Nguyen, Lim ; Dennis, Tasshi ; Aazhang, Behnaam ; Young, James F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Rice Univ., Houston, TX, USA

Volume

15

Issue

9

fYear

1997

fDate

9/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1647

Lastpage

1653

Abstract

We report the first demonstration of bipolar coding techniques in the optical spectral domain for incoherent optical code division multiple access (CDMA) communication. Based on the modulation and detection principles that we have developed, the power spectrum of an erbium-doped superfluorescent fiber source was encoded using bipolar codes and decoded using an optical bipolar correlator. A CDMA testbed consisting of two encoders and one decoder was implemented with bulk optics and free-space transmission. Our measurements verify the correlations between the bipolar codewords and demonstrate the rejection of multiple access interference

Keywords

code division multiple access; optical correlation; optical fibre communication; CDMA; CDMA testbed; bipolar codes; bipolar codewords; bipolar coding techniques; bulk optics; detection principles; encoded; erbium-doped superfluorescent fiber source; free-space transmission; incoherent optical code division multiple access; multiple access interference rejection; optical bipolar correlator; optical spectral amplitude CDMA communication; power spectrum; Bandwidth; Decoding; Modulation coding; Multiaccess communication; Multiple access interference; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber testing; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Radio frequency;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.622889

Filename

622889