In this paper we present and investigate a digital design and implementational details of a wireless optical CDMA (OCDMA) system based on generalized optical orthogonal codes (OOCs). A detailed digital implementation analysis and transmitter/receiver architectures in the context of the above design are fully studied. We analyze various subsystems for a wireless OCDMA system including detector and receiver structure, acquisition, and tracking blocks as well as evaluating their performance in a typical wireless OCDMA communication system. By analyzing two main parts of the system, namely, chip-level detector and OCDMA receiver blocks we evaluate the performance of the overall system. Analytical and simulation results are presented to depict system performance. Results on the design and implementation of such systems in this paper indicate the viability and the importance of OOC based wireless OCDMA technology to satisfy certain applications need in a wider communication system worldwide. Finally we describe an experimental prototype where we highlight the main aspects of the implementation of the system.

In this paper we introduce and propose novel signaling methods and receiver structures based on advanced binary optical logic gates for fiber-optic code division multiple access (FO-CDMA) systems using all-optical signal processing. In the proposed system the users of the network are categorized into multiple classes. Users of each class transmit at the same power level but different from the levels of the other classes' users. Using a combination of optical OR, AND and XNOR logic gates for the receiver structure we show that such a network not only takes the full advantages of all-optical signal processing but also demonstrates a considerable throughput efficiency when compared to ordinary FO-CDMA systems. The proposed receiver structure mitigates the effect of interfering users from the other classes by rejecting some specified power level combinations from the other classes. The depth of interference cancellation is a function of the corresponding number of power levels and the number of stages applied to the optical logic gates in use. In our analysis we choose the generalized form of optical orthogonal codes (OOC), i.e., OOCs with cross-correlation value greater than one, as the signature sequence. We begin by emphasizing on two-level systems, that is, when the users can select one out of two power levels for signal transmission. However, for multilevel FO-CDMA we obtain a closed-form relation for the upper bound on the probability of error.We will show that under the ideal case the increase in throughput resulting from the proposed multilevel system is proportional to the number of classes or power levels in use. Our analytical results are compared to the results of an extensive system simulation. The numerical closeness between, the analytical and system simulation, indicates the accuracy with which we have modeled mathematically our proposed signaling using advanced binary optical logic gates in FO-CDMA.

In this paper we study and present an in-depth analysis on the operability and the viability of a typical wireless optical CDMA (OCDMA) local area network. Three receiver structures for OCDMA systems, using optical orthogonal codes (OOC) with minimum auto and cross-correlations as signature sequence, namely, correlation, correlation with hard-limiter, and chip-level detection are studied and proposed for such a network. For the synchronization circuit design the performance of two algorithms for OOC based OCDMA networks, namely, simple serial-search and multiple-shift in the context of wireless OCDMA LAN are studied. Furthermore, we study a synchronization method based on matched filtering and show that it presents a much better performance in our wireless OCDMA system. The effect of sampling rate and its performance on tracking circuit is analyzed. Bit-error-rate (BER) analysis is performed by photon counting methodology. Multi-user interference (MUI), ambient light, and photodetector dark current are considered in our analysis. Our analysis strongly indicates the viability and practicality of such systems in certain important wireless optical communications systems.