Dispersion-flattened-fiber based optical thresholder for multiple-access-interference suppression in OCDMA system

Opt Express. 2005 Jul 11;13(14):5499-505. doi: 10.1364/opex.13.005499.

Abstract

An optical thresholding technique based on super-continuum generation in dispersion flattened fiber is proposed and experimentally demonstrated to enable data-rate detection in optical code division multiple access networks. The proposed scheme exhibits an excellent discrimination between a desired signal and interference signals with features of pulse reshaping, low insertion loss, polarization independency as well as reasonable operation power.