A fertile technique, for increasing single-user throughput while keeping a constraint on the light pulsewidth, is proposed for spectral-amplitude-coding optical code-division multiple-access (SAC-OCDMA) systems. In this technique, two-level -ary overlapping pulse-position modulation ( -OPPM) scheme is adopted and each user is assigned two orthogonal code sequences to represent these two levels. The code sequences are selected from a minimum cross-correlation code set. The bit error rate (BER) of the proposed system is derived, taking into account the effects of phase-induced intensity noise, shot noise, and thermal noise in addition to the multiple-access interference. The BER performance of this system is compared to other systems adopting -PPM and OOK schemes under same pulsewidth constraints. Our results reveal that, while keeping the BER well below a prescribed threshold, the proposed -OPPM SAC-OCDMA system achieves higher transmission rate as compared to both -PPM and OOK SAC-OCDMA systems under same constraints. Specifically the transmission rate of a single user of the proposed system can be increased by about 34.44% as compared to traditional systems.
Index Terms-Bit-error-rate (BER), modified prime sequence (MPS) codes, on-off keying (OOK), optical code-divisionmultiple access (OCDMA), overlapping pulse-position modulation (OPPM), pulse-position modulation (PPM), spectral-amplitude coding (SAC). I. INTRODUCTION O PTICAL CODE-DIVISION MULTIPLE-ACCESS (OCDMA) techniques are becoming competitive candidates for future optical communications networks [1]-[5]. Indeed, recently, many authors have proposed several frameworks for future optical networks adopting OCDMA techniques. For example in [1], Bhuiyan et al. have presented an analytical approach to the performance evaluation of turbulence induced fading on free space OCDMA communications systems. In [2], Tseng and Wu have adopted super perfect difference (SPD) code in compact spectral-amplitude-coding optical code-division multiple-access (SAC-OCDMA) passive optical networks (PONs). In [3], Chang et al. have studied diversity OCDMA schemes in optical wireless communications systems. In [4],