The present paper describes the advantages of the combination of optical Code Division Multiple Access and Polarization Shift Keying direct detection. It is shown by means of a new receiver model that the normally disturbing statistical fluctuations of the State of Polarization on a single-mode fiber result in an attenuation of the crosscorrelation functions at the receiver. Thereby an average process gain of 4.7 dB in signal-to-crosstalk ratio is obtained. A receiver with optical signal processing unit for the chip-synchronous case is derived. Finally some simulation results concerning multi user interference and receiver noise are presented.

Date Published: 17 February 1995
PDF: 11 pages
Proc. SPIE 2450, Broadband Networks: Strategies and Technologies, (17 February 1995); doi: 10.1117/12.201277

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2450:
Broadband Networks: Strategies and Technologies
Robert A. Cryan; P. Nalinaj Fernando; Pierpaolo Ghiggino; John M. Senior, Editor(s)