In this work an experimental demonstration is proposed to implement the synchronous optical code division multiple access system using two dimensional wavelength hopping and time spreading optical prime code is presented. An optical CDMA system is configured on latest version of optisystem by optiwave for the 20 users (Prime Number = 5)
IntroductionIn recent time, Optical Code Division Multiple Access (O-CDMA) is an emerging technology for providing a reliable and scalable communication system. OCMDA support multiple user access over large bandwidth provided by the optical fiber. OCDMA is a suitable multiple access technique for access network and LAN because of its flexibility and scalability to the network topology [1,2]. Optical CDMA has been studied by lot of researchers in past for many years because of fast and secure data transmission feature inherently lies in the optical fiber while efficient traffic management and zero access delay is offered by CDMA technique [3]. With the advancement in optical fiber and optical components the transmission over the fiber has also get improved considerably.The performance of Optical CDMA system significantly depends upon the optical code and system configuration [4]. As in communication system, each subscriber communicates with others at same or different time. Thus each user is typically assigned a unique code and has a tunable encoder and decoder. The encoder and decoder must be tuned to that particular code in order to transmit the information successfully even though in the presence of other user in the system [5]. Researchers have proposed many coding techniques like 1D spectral phase encoding, 1D spectral amplitude coding, 1D time spread coding, 2D wavelength hopping and time spreading coding [6] etc.The presented 2D tunable Optical CDMA system is computer program controlled, wellconfigured, reliable and cost effective. This is because of the superior designing using multimode fiber as well as the ability of controlling many users concurrently and since non interfering codes has been used. The features and feasibility of system are characterized in the paper as: the two dimensional prime code /prime code codeword is discussed in section 2. The structure of two dimensional encoder and decoder are explained in section 3. The experimental setup and results are presented in section 4. The performance of the 2D optical CDMA system has been compared with the 1D optical CDMA system for comparative analysis.The evaluation of result has been discussed in section 5. Conclusion has been summarized in section 6.