Impact of optical hard limiter on the performance of an optical overlapped-code division multiple access system

Elie N. Inaty; Robert Raad; Nicole Tablieh

doi:10.1117/1.3607415

1 August 2011 Impact of optical hard limiter on the performance of an optical overlapped-code division multiple access system

Elie N. Inaty, Robert Raad, Nicole Tablieh

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 50, Issue 8, 085003 (August 2011). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3607415

Abstract

Throughout this paper, a closed form expression of the multiple access interference (MAI) limited bit error rate (BER) is provided for the multiwavelength optical code-division multiple-access system when the system is working above the nominal transmission rate limit imposed by the passive encoding-decoding operation. This system is known in literature as the optical overlapped code division multiple access (OV-CDMA) system. A unified analytical framework is presented emphasizing the impact of optical hard limiter (OHL) on the BER performance of such a system. Results show that the performance of the OV-CDMA system may be highly improved when using OHL preprocessing at the receiver side.

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Elie N. Inaty, Robert Raad, and Nicole Tablieh "Impact of optical hard limiter on the performance of an optical overlapped-code division multiple access system," Optical Engineering 50(8), 085003 (1 August 2011). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3607415

Published: 1 August 2011

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