Enhanced Performance of SAC-OCDMA System based on SPD Detection Utilizing EDFA for Access Networks

In this paper, the authors present the impact of an Erbium Doped Fibre Amplifier (EDFA) for high data rate in Spectral Amplitude Coding Optical Code Division Multiple Access (SAC-OCDMA) networks. The presented a single photodiode (SPD) detection structure for SAC-OCDMA system. The SPD detection can be flexibly constructed for any weight and number of users by using a single photodiode. Several advantages of using EDFA for simultaneous noise suppression and improved the signal quality. These features show the SPD combined with EDFA can be a solution to enhance the overall system performance of SAC-OCDMA access networks. Based on the theoretical and simulation evaluation, Modified Double Weight (MDW) code is shown to provide a much better performance compared to existing SAC-OCDMA codes. The ability of the MDW code based SAC-OCDMA system utilizing EDFA to support simultaneous transmissions at different data rate has been successfully established through the simulated results of the at bit error rate of 10-10.