Abstract
The results of a range of experimental characterization exercises of interferometric noise (IN) for the case of a representative 2-D time spreading wavelength-hopping (2-D TW) optical code family are presented. Interferometric noise is evaluated at a data rate of 2.5 Gbps within an OCDMA network emulation test bed established utilising fibre Bragg grating encoders/decoders. The results demonstrate that this form of noise introduces significant system power penalties and must be taken into consideration in any OCDMA network designs and implementations.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 9th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, 2007 |
Subtitle of host publication | ICTON '07 |
Place of Publication | Piscataway, NJ, United States |
Publisher | IEEE |
Pages | 114-117 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Volume | 1 |
ISBN (Print) | 1424412498 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2007 |
Keywords
- fibre Bragg grating coders
- optical code-division multiple access (OCDMA)
- time-wavelength optical codes
- beat noise
- optical noise
- optical interferometry
- optical crosstalk
- optical attenuators