Interferometric Noise Characterisation of a 2-D Time Spreading Wavelength Hopping OCDMA Networks using FBG Encoding/Decoding

Author

Michie, Craig ; Atkinson, Robert ; Andonovic, Ivan ; Glesk, Ivan ; Prucnal, Paul ; Sasaki, Kensuke ; Gupta, Gyaneshwar

Author_Institution

Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow

Volume

1

fYear

2007

fDate

1-5 July 2007

Firstpage

114

Lastpage

117

Abstract

The results of a range of experimental characterization exercises of interferometric noise (IN) for the case of a representative 2-D time spreading wavelength-hopping (2-D TW) optical code family are presented. Interferometric noise is evaluated at a data rate of 2.5 Gbps within an OCDMA network emulation test bed established utilising fibre Bragg grating encoders/decoders. The results demonstrate that this form of noise introduces significant system power penalties and must be taken into consideration in any OCDMA network designs and implementations.

Keywords

code division multiple access; encoding; optical fibre networks; optical noise; telecommunication network planning; 2D time spreading wavelength hopping OCDMA networks; OCDMA network emulation test bed; fibre Bragg grating encoders/decoders; interferometric noise characterisation; optical code; system power penalties; Bragg gratings; Decoding; Encoding; Fiber gratings; Optical attenuators; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber polarization; Optical interferometry; Optical noise; Testing; beat noise; fibre Bragg grating coders; optical code-division multiple access (OCDMA); time-wavelength optical codes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2007. ICTON '07. 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rome

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1249-8

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-1249-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2007.4296044

Filename

4296044