Novel technique to cancel MAI for OCDMA system

Abstract Code division multiple access in optical domain has a potential in next-generation long-haul transmission systems. However, multiple user interference is a snag in functioning of system employing OCDMA. A detailed analysis of multiple access interference (MAI) which causes a severe degradation in the system performance is done in this paper. An optimum MAI cancellation scheme has been proposed. This cancellation scheme depends not only on using the excellent correlation property of the double padded modified prime codes (DPMPC) as spreading sequence but also on employing minimum shift keying (MSK). The performance of the proposed cancellation scheme is compared with the existing techniques of FSK-OCDMA and PPM-OCDMA cancellation techniques. MSK-OCDMA cancellation technique achieves the lowest bit error rate of 10−20. It is also efficient in power. It achieves lowest bit error rate at same number of mean photon number when compared to the existing techniques. The investigations reveal that MSK-OCDMA cancellation technique outperforms FSK-OCDMA and PPM-OCDMA cancellation schemes.