Variable spectral phase encoder/decoder based on decomposition of hadamard codes

a spectral phase encoder and variable spectral phase technology, applied in the field of optical communication, can solve the problems of difficult for one party in a conversation to hear the other party, the conversation will drown out the other conversation, and the number of users is quite limited in fdma and tdma data rates

US20100003031A1Active Publication Date: 2010-01-07NYTELL SOFTWARE LLC
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2010-01-07

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Abstract

The invention is directed toward a variable spectral phase encoder. The variable spectral phase encoder includes a plurality of switches and at least one encoder. The encoder is coupled between a first switch and second switch among the plurality of switches. The first switch selectively routes an optical signal to some combination of fixed encoders such that their collective product applies one of the Hadamard sequences to the optical signal.
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STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH

[0001] Funding for research was partially provided by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under federal contract MDA972-03-C-0078. The federal government has certain rights in this invention.FIELD OF THE INVENTION

[0002] The present invention relates to optical communication and, more particularly, to a dynamic encoder / decoder suitable for use in optical code division multiple access (OCDMA) communication networks.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0003] Various communications schemes have been used to increase data throughput and to decrease data error rates as well as to generally improve the performance of communications channels. As an example, frequency division multiple access (“FDMA”) employs multiple data streams that are assigned to specific channels disposed at different frequencies of the transmission band. Alternatively, time division multiple access (“TDMA”) uses multiple data streams that are assigned to different timeslot...

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[0034]FIG. 1 illustratively depicts a system 100 in accordance with an aspect of the present invention. The system comprises a laser source 110 that generates a sequence of optical pulses 115 that are fed to a data modulator 120. The data modulator 122 also receives a data stream 122 that is used to modulate the sequence of optical pulses 115. The modulation data preferably comprises a digital data stream generated by a subscriber or user station 124. In a preferred embodiment, the data modulator 122 comprises an ON / OFF keyed data modulator wherein a “1” symbol or bit in the digital data stream corresponds to the presence of an optical pulse and a “0” symbol or bit corresponds to the absence of an optical pulse. In this way, each pulse represents a bit of information. For example, a modulated stream 125 is shown where the digital data stream comprises a “1010” data sequence. As shown, each time slot with the bit “1” will result in the presence of an optical pulse (1251 and 1253), wh...