Performance investigation of 1.5 Tb/s optical hybrid 2D-OCDMA/OFDM system using direct spectral detection based on successive weight encoding algorithm

•For enhancement of the performance of optical communication systems, it is imperative mainly to increase the number of available users while decreasing the bit error rate (BER) in the required spectral width. In this research, a novel two-dimensional hybrid spectral/spatial OCDMA system using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) technology based on successive weight (SW) coding has been investigated. Under huge simultaneous capacity, the new technique achieves a greater data rate reaching 10 Gbps carried by each user with an overall transfer rate of 1.5 Tb/s. In order to raise the performance of optical communication systems, it is imperative mainly to increase the number of available users while decreasing the bit error rate (BER) in the required spectral width. This can be challenging in optical multiplexing systems including incoherent optical code division multiplexing (OCDMA). In this respect, an interesting two-dimensional hybrid spectral/spatial OCDMA system using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) technology based on successive weight (SW) coding has been investigated. Using the zero cross-correlation (ZCC) feature, the novel approach declined the effect of phase-induced intensity noise (PIIN), and multi-user interference (MUI) at the receiver has been fully eradicated. When compared to systems with Modified Double Weight (MDW), Flexible Cross Correlation (FCC), and two-dimensional hybrid Flexible Cross-Correlation - Modified Double Weight 2D-MDW/FCC codes, numerical findings demonstrate that our proposed system is more efficient, increasing the number of simultaneous users to 350, and achieving a higher overall transfer rate towards 1.5 Tb/s under the required optical communication conditions.