Performance comparison of coherent ultrashort light pulse and incoherent broad-band CDMA systems

Author

Papannareddy, R. ; Weiner, A.M.

Author_Institution

Purdue Univ., Westville, IN, USA

Volume

11

Issue

12

fYear

1999

Firstpage

1683

Lastpage

1685

Abstract

We compare the theoretical bit-error-rate (BER) performance limits of coherent ultrashort light pulse and incoherent broad-band code-division multiple access (CDMA) communication systems. Our comparison highlights the fundamental differences in the scaling of BER and throughput with important system parameters. The results indicate that for the same optical bandwidth and BER, an ultrashort pulse CDMA with a code length of 512 can in principle yield a substantial throughput advantage over the incoherent broad-band systems.

Keywords

broadband networks; code division multiple access; high-speed optical techniques; light coherence; CDMA communication systems; code length; coherent ultrashort light pulse; incoherent broad-band CDMA systems; incoherent broad-band code-division multiple access; incoherent broad-band systems; optical bandwidth; system parameters; theoretical bit-error-rate performance limits; throughput advantage; Bit error rate; Decoding; Multiaccess communication; Optical pulses; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Pulse modulation; Stimulated emission; Throughput; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.806887

Filename

806887