Title :
A Comparison of Optical Sources for Spectral Amplitude Coding OCDMA
Author :
Ayotte, Simon ; Rusch, Leslie A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Laval Univ., Que.
Abstract :
We consider different strategies for improving the capacity of SAC-OCDMA: incoherent sources, multi-laser sources and forward error correction (FEC) or coherent sources. Coherent sources must have precise frequency placement to avoid beating and outperform the FEC solution
Keywords :
code division multiple access; encoding; forward error correction; light sources; optical fibre networks; optical transmitters; coherent sources; forward error correction; incoherent sources; multilaser sources; optical sources; spectral amplitude coding OCDMA; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Forward error correction; Frequency; Laser noise; Optical fiber LAN; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical transmitters; Passive optical networks;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2006. LEOS 2006. 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Montreal, Que.
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9555-7
Electronic_ISBN :
0-7803-9555-7
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2006.279142
