Experimental demonstration of a FBG-based temporal optical pulse shaping scheme dual to spatial arrangements for its use in OCDMA systems

We have demonstrated a reconfigurable time domain spectral phase encoding scheme for coherent optical code-division-multiple-access application. The proposed scheme is based on the concept of temporal pulse shaping dual to spatial arrangements. It uses Fiber Bragg Gratings as dispersive elements and electro-optic modulators. The data speed is 1.25 Gbps and the code is introduced at 10 Gcps, using a subset of the Hadamard codes with a length of 8 chips within a 0.7 nm optical window. The system is electrically reconfigurable and compatible with fiber systems and permits scalability in the size of the codes by modifying only the phase modulator velocity.