Abstract-A novel balanced detection scheme for multi-access interference cancellation in multimedia spectral-amplitude-coding optical code-division multiple-access system is proposed. The receiver is capable of handling both equal and unequal in-phase cross correlation of optical orthogonal codes. A novel class of constantlength variable-weight optical orthogonal codes able to support multimedia services with different quality-of-service requirements is proposed as well. The construction is based on the pairwise balanced designs, or more specifically, on an incidence structure defined on an integer sub-lattice.Index Terms-Integer lattices, multi-access interference (MAI), multimedia, optical code division multiple access (CDMA), optical orthogonal codes, pairwise balanced designs, spectral-amplitudecoding (SAC).