Spectral slicing of a supercontinuum source for WDM/DS-OCDMA application

Author

Ware, Cedric ; Cordette, Steevy ; Lepers, Catherine ; Fsaifes, Ihsan ; Kibler, Bertrand ; Finot, Christophe ; Millot, G.

Author_Institution

Commun. & Electron. Dept., TELECOM ParisTech, Paris

Volume

4

fYear

2008

fDate

22-26 June 2008

Firstpage

158

Lastpage

161

Abstract

WDM and optical CDMA are leading contenders to easily upgrade access network performances in terms of multiple access technique. Both methods can be used at once, using a single multiwavelength optical source. We show, numerically and experimentally, that spectral slicing of a 10-GHz pulse train broadened to a supercontinuum yields pulses suitable for use in a direct sequence optical CDMA system. Simulations with optical CDMA encoders and decoders based on superstructured fiber Bragg gratings indicate good performance can be expected.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; code division multiple access; codecs; optical fibre networks; spread spectrum communication; wavelength division multiplexing; DS-OCDMA; WDM; access network performances; direct sequence optical CDMA system; fiber Bragg gratings; multiple access technique; multiwavelength optical source; optical CDMA decoders; optical CDMA encoders; spectral slicing; supercontinuum source; Decoding; Fiber nonlinear optics; Multiaccess communication; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulses; Passive optical networks; Pulse amplifiers; Solid modeling; Supercontinuum generation; Wavelength division multiplexing; WDM; coherent continuum generation; direct-sequence OCDMA; optical access networks; spectral slicing; superstructured fiber Bragg gratings;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2008. ICTON 2008. 10th Anniversary International Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2625-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2626-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2008.4598758

Filename

4598758