Beat noise mitigation through spatial multiplexing in spectral amplitude coding OCDMA networks

Abstract

This paper evaluates the performance of spatial multiplexing (SM) in beat noise mitigation in coherent spectral amplitude coding (SAC) OCDMA via the Optisystem software kit. We take into consideration two different laser source configurations; a centralized shared multi laser source and a precisely controlled multi laser source. For different performance merits, the results showed superiority of the SM SAC over the conventional SAC OCDMA. For example, an up to nine order of magnitude improvement in the bit error rate (BER) was reported for six users at 1.25 Gb/s.