Design and Demonstration of a Novel Optical CDMA Platform for Avionics Applications

Author

Glesk, Ivan ; Wang, Yue-Kai ; Bres, Camille-S ; Prucnal, PAul R.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2006

fDate

23-25 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

We designed and built a highly scalable incoherent optical CDMA testbed for Lockheed Martin as a novel platform for testing different avionics applications. It enables users to communicate with each other at OC-24 including transfer of data at ~1.25 Gbit/sec per user with raw BER of less than 10^-12. The system architecture uses (3,11) fast wavelength-hopping, time-spreading prime codes with a chip size of 73 ps utilizing standard on-off-keyed picosecond optical pulses allocated in the time and wavelength domains. A novel design of optical encoders and decoders enables the realization of a secure connectivity approaching a so called "one-time-pad" security. The testbed is also designed to conduct eavesdropping studies among testbed users. This incoherent OCDMA approach is compatible with existing DWDM optical networks and uses off-the-shelf components

Keywords

avionics; code division multiple access; optical fibre networks; avionics application; decoders; fast wavelength-hopping; optical CDMA; optical encoders; time-spreading prime code; Aerospace electronics; Bit error rate; Code standards; Decoding; Multiaccess communication; Optical design; Optical fiber networks; Optical pulses; Testing; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 2006. MILCOM 2006. IEEE

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0617-X

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0618-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2006.302200

Filename

4086541