A New Family of Wavelength-Time Optical CDMA Codes Utilizing Programmable Arrayed Waveguide Gratings

Author

Kwong, Wing C. ; Yang, Guu-Chang ; Liu, Yu-Chih

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng., Hofstra Univ., Hempstead, NY, USA

Volume

23

Issue

8

fYear

2005

Firstpage

1564

Lastpage

1571

Abstract

A two-dimensional, so-called wavelength-hopping time-spreading, optical code-division multiple-access coding scheme has recently been studied for supporting more subscribers and simultaneous users than conventional one-dimensional techniques. To further improve the numbers of subscribers and simultaneous users without sacrificing performance, a new code, which utilizes the unipolar version of bipolar codes (for wavelength hopping) and optical unipolar codes (for time spreading), is studied and analyzed in this paper. A programmable and integratable coding hardware based on arrayed waveguide gratings is designed for this coding scheme.

Keywords

arrayed waveguide gratings; code division multiple access; codes; optical fibre networks; AWG; O-CDMA; integratable coding; optical code-division multiple-access coding scheme; optical unipolar codes; programmable arrayed waveguide grating; wavelength-hopping time-spreading; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Bragg gratings; Fiber gratings; Hardware; Multiaccess communication; Optical arrays; Optical pulses; Optical waveguides; Performance analysis; Transmission line matrix methods; Arrayed waveguide gratings (AWGs); optical code-division multiple-access (O-CDMA); optical codes; wavelength-hopping time-spreading;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSAC.2005.851761

Filename

1490644