Performance analysis of a hybrid fiber Bragg grating-based spectral-amplitude-coding/successive interference cancellation for optical CDMA systems

Successive interference cancellation (SIC) scheme is proposed as a new technique that has the potential to reduce the interference and suppress the multiple-access interference (MAI) in spectral-amplitudecoding (SAC) optical-code-division-multiple access (OCDMA) systems. The proposed receiver-based on fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) techniques. The performance of the proposed system is theoretically analyzed, taking into account various types of noise and interference, including both multiple-access interference (MAI) and receiver noise. Analytical results show that the proposed system offers significant improvement in terms of bit error rate and system capacity (number of users). We have tested our results with both modified prime codes (MPR) and modified quadratic congruence (MQC) codes. In addition, we have compared our proposed system with the corresponding one without cancellation. It has been shown that the proposed scheme gives a substantial increase in capacity. 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.