Upper and lower bounds of normalized throughput in WDM+OCDMA system using optical hard-limiters

A scheme of WDM+OCDMA system employing optical hard-limiter(OHL) is proposed, and its performance of normalized throughput is analyzed. Upper bound of normalized throughput is obtained when all simultaneous users are equally allocated to different wavelength channels. Lower bound of normalized throughput is obtained when all simultaneous users are firstly allocated to same wavelength channels. Compared with the performance of WDM+OCDMA system without OHL, both upper bound and lower bound of normalized throughput in WDM+OCDMA system with OHL can be improved.