Performance Analysis of 2-D Prime Codes Encoded Optical CDMA System

Abstract

Optical code division multiple access (OCDMA) system provides highly secured transmission in addition to its capabilities to support asynchronous transmission and soft blocking. Two-dimensional OCDMA codes are chosen in this paper due to their high cardinality, good spectral efficiency and flexibility in their construction methods against direct sequence codes. This paper focuses on study of impact of multiple access interference (MAI) at high data rates for 2-D prime codesbased OCDMA system. It is shown that how the change in number of simultaneous users affects the transmission quality. Further, performance of the system is analysed in terms of bit error rate, received electrical power and eye openings. In addition, this paper also shows a comparative analysis of 2-D codes-based OCDMA system and wavelength division multiple access (WDMA) system in order to justify the improved performance of the proposed system. It is observed that the performance of 2-D OCDMA system is much better than WDMA system in terms of quality as well as security.