Co-channel interference cancellation in optical synchronous CDMA communication systems

Three co-channel interference cancellation techniques are proposed for synchronous optical CDMA communication systems. Modified prime sequence optical codes that exhibit a grouping characteristic are employed. In the first technique the desired user collects primary decisions from receivers of all interfering users and subtracts them, after properly weighting, from its received signal. In the second and third techniques the desired user collects photodetector outputs from users in its same group and subtracts them from its received signal after a proper scaling.<>