Performance analysis of a variable-weight OCDMA system under the impact of fiber impairments

Author

Kharazi, S. M S Seyedzadeh ; Mahdiraji, G. Amouzad ; Sahbudin, R.K.Z. ; Mokhtar, M. ; Abas, A.F. ; Anas, S.B.A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Commun. Syst. Eng., Univ. Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia

fYear

2011

fDate

17-19 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The impact of Chromatic Dispersion (CD) and Non-Linear Effects (NLE) including Self-Phase Modulation (SPM) and Four-Wave Mixing (FWM), on the performance of a Variable-Weight Optical Code Division Multiple Access (VW-OCDMA) system at 1.25 Gbps is analyzed by simulation. The results show that CD is the most dominant effect, which increases the users bit error rate (BER) especially for the users with higher weights. In order to investigate the performance of system in service differentiation for users with different weights, Dispersion Compensating Fiber (DCF) is used to mitigate the effect of CD caused by Single Mode Fiber (SMF). The results show that users with higher weights have better performance as expected and impact of NLE is negligible for distance up to 150 km, considering low launched power.

Keywords

code division multiple access; error statistics; multiwave mixing; optical fibre networks; self-phase modulation; BER; DCF; FWM; NLE; SMF; SPM; VW-OCDMA; bit error rate; bit rate 1.25 Gbit/s; chromatic dispersion; dispersion compensating fiber; fiber impairment; four-wave mixing; nonlinear effect; optical code division multiple access; self-phase modulation; single mode fiber; variable-weight OCDMA system; Transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics (ICP), 2011 IEEE 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kata Kinabalu

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-265-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-61284-263-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICP.2011.6106875

Filename

6106875