On the Experimental Characterization of Beat Noise in 2-D Time-Spreading Wavelength-Hopping OCDMA Systems

Author

Brès, Camille-Sophie ; Huang, Yue-Kai ; Rand, Darren ; Glesk, Ivan ; Prucnal, PAul R. ; Bazan, Taher ; Michie, Craig ; Harle, David ; Andonovic, Ivan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Princeton Univ., NJ

Volume

18

Issue

21

fYear

2006

Firstpage

2314

Lastpage

2316

Abstract

The results of a preliminary experimental characterization of beat noise for the case of a particular two-dimensional time-spreading wavelength-hopping optical code family are presented. Beat noise is evaluated at a data rate of 2.5 Gb/s with and without time gating. Results indicate that this form of noise introduces significant system power penalties for both cases, with the former approach more robust in this respect

Keywords

code division multiple access; codes; optical fibre networks; optical noise; 2.5 Gbit/s; beat noise; optical code-division multiple access; wavelength-hopping OCDMA; Filters; Multiaccess communication; Multiple access interference; Optical fiber networks; Optical noise; Optical pulse generation; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Transistors; Two dimensional displays; Beat noise; optical code-division multiple access (OCDMA); time gating; time-wavelength (TW) optical codes;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.885220

Filename

1715412