A new family of three-dimensional codes for optical CDMA systems with differential detection
Two-dimensional codes for OCDMA have been shown to be more versatile compared to the one-dimensional codes for their good spectral efficiency as well as better BER performance. The two-dimensional (2-D) codes also benefit from the reduction of the wavelength/time-like property over the one-dimensional (1-D) codes. The three-dimensional (3-D) codes are important as these produce a larger code set. In this paper, we present a new family of 3-D single-pulse per plane codes for differential detection (SPDD) for OCDMA systems (based on the 1-D golomb ruler sequences), which achieve good code cardinality and a very high BER performance. The improved BER performance is obtained by using two codes to encode 1 and 0 bits in the encoder and differential detection in the receiver. The comparison of 3-D SPDD with some of the best reported 2-D/3-D codes, shows that the 3-D SPDD codes perform significantly better than the others. A larger number of simultaneous users is supported at 1e-9 compared to the earlier proposed 2-D/3-D orthogonal codes.
differential detection optical code division multiple access (ocdma) single-pulse per plane codes (spp) multiple pulse per row codes (mpp) multiple access interference (mai)