Experimental demonstration and scalability analysis of a four-node 102-Gchip/s fast frequency-hopping time-spreading optical CDMA network

Author

Baby, Varghese ; Glesk, Ivan ; Runser, Robert J. ; Fischer, Russell ; Huang, Yue-Kai ; Bres, Camille-Sophie ; Kwong, Wing C. ; Curtis, Thomas H. ; Prucnal, PAul R.

Author_Institution

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

Volume

17

Issue

1

fYear

2005

Firstpage

253

Lastpage

255

Abstract

We present experimental and simulation results from a 102-Gchips/s incoherent wavelength-hopping time-spreading optical code-division multiple-access testbed, utilizing four 50-GHz ITU grid wavelengths. Error-free operation of four users is obtained with an effective power penalty ∼0.5 dB. Simulation studies show scalability to >10 users with an effective power penalty of ∼4 dB. The simulation study of the impact of asynchronous access on the performance allows for a complete network design from an engineering viewpoint.

Keywords

code division multiple access; frequency hop communication; optical fibre networks; 50 GHz; ITU grid wavelengths; asynchronous access; fast frequency hopping; optical code-division multiple-access; scalability analysis; time-spreading optical CDMA network; Bandwidth; Frequency; Multiaccess communication; Optical fiber networks; Optical pulses; Optical sensors; Pediatrics; Robustness; Scalability; Testing; Code-division multiple-access; optical fiber communications; optical fiber local area network;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2004.838299

Filename

1372647