Optical Code Division Multiple Access offers the first comprehensive treatment of OCDMA from technology to systems.

Features:

• Provides a comprehensive reference to all aspects of optical CDMA networks, from technologies to systems
• Explores both coherent and incoherent OCDMA coding techniques
• Discusses enabling technologies such as fiber Bragg gratings, hybrid technologies, and device integration
• Offers a CD-ROM outlining the complete genealogy of OCDMA from inception to current state, organized by author, by title, and by chronology
• Covers network issues such as security and architecture
• Includes numerous illustrations to illuminate the discussion
• Features a Foreword written by Andrew Viterbi, one of the founders of modern wireless communications

Contents

Optical Code Division Multiple Access: A Historical Perspective

• Early History (Before 1980)
• 1980-1984
• 1985-1989
• 1990-1994
• 1995-1999
• 2000-2004
• Future Trends, Applications, and Unfinished Business

Optical CDMA Codes

• Constructions of Coherent Codes
• Constructions of Incoherent Codes
• Performance Analysis and Comparison of Coherent and Incoherent Codes
• Advanced Incoherent Codes

Information Capacity of Nonlinear Fiber-Optical Systems: Fundamental Limits and OCDMA Performance

• Fiber Optical Communication System as an Information Channel
• The Fundamental Limit to the Information Capacity of a Nonlinear Fiber-Optical System
• The Information Capacity of Fiber-Optical CDMA Systems
• Advanced Coding Techniques for Performance Improvement

Optical Code-Division Multiple-Access Enabled by Fiber Bragg Grating Technology

• Fiber Bragg Grating Technology
• FBGs for FOCDMA

Coherent Optical CDMA Systems

• Coherent OCDMA Approaches
• Subsystem Technologies
• Code Selection for SPC-OCDMA
• OCDMA Network Architectures for SPC-OCDMA

Incoherent Optical CDMA Systems

• WHTS System Architecture
• Technologies for WHTS OCDMA
• Experimental Demonstration of WHTS OCDMA

Hybrid Multiplesing Techniques (OCDMA/TDM/WDM)

• Hybrid Multiplexing Transmission System
• Photonic Gateway: Multiplexing Format Conversion
• OCDMA/WDM Virtual Optical Path Cross Connect

Integration Technologies

• Integration Strategies
• Encoding/Decoding for OCDMA Systems
• Integrated Modules

Optical CDMA Network Security

• Security
• Quantifying OCDMA Confidentiality
• OCDMA for Authentication

Optical CDMA Network Architecutures and Applications

• Local Area Networks
• Applications Demonstrations

Index

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