Wireless optical CDMA LAN: digital implementation analysis

In this paper we present and investigate a digital design and implementational details of a wireless optical CDMA (OCDMA) system based on generalized optical orthogonal codes (OOCs). A detailed digital implementation analysis and transmitter/receiver architectures in the context of the above design are fully studied. We analyze various subsystems for a wireless OCDMA system including detector and receiver structure, acquisition, and tracking blocks as well as evaluating their performance in a typical wireless OCDMA communication system. By analyzing two main parts of the system, namely, chip-level detector and OCDMA receiver blocks we evaluate the performance of the overall system. Analytical and simulation results are presented to depict system performance. Results on the design and implementation of such systems in this paper indicate the viability and the importance of OOC based wireless OCDMA technology to satisfy certain applications need in a wider communication system worldwide. Finally we describe an experimental prototype where we highlight the main aspects of the implementation of the system.