LED spectrum slicing for ZCC SAC-OCDMA coding system

In this paper we propose a Zero Cross-correlation (ZCC) code in Optical Code Division Multiple Access (OCDMA) CDMA system based on amplitude spectral encoding of low-cost broadband sources such as Light Emitting Diode (LED). We also study how the sliced spectrum of LED can be used as a cost-effective light source in ZCC code. Our system requires only standard optical elements and simple direct-detection receivers. We show that for number of weight = 4, up to 100 users can transmit asynchronously with an average bit error rate equal to 10^-9. This ZCC code also demonstrates that BER of 10^-9 can be achieved within the minimum received power of -25.5 dBm.