Spectral efficiency of OCDMA systems with coherent pulsed sources

We present a model to evaluate the upper limit of the spectral efficiency of optical code-division multiple-access (OCDMA) systems with coherent sources. Phase-encoded and direct-sequence OCDMA systems are evaluated using this model. The results show that a spectral efficiency of 2.24/spl times/10/sup -2/ b/s/spl middot/ Hz can be achieved with a maximum bit error rate of 10/sup -10/ in these systems of the number of users. This result demonstrates that the maximum spectral efficiency of OCDMA systems with coherent sources is at least a factor of 5 higher than OCDMA systems with incoherent sources.

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