METHOD FOR THE OCDMA ENCODING OF OPTICAL SIGNALS

摘要

A method for encoding optical signals using OCDMA is provided. A dense frequency grid Gm is defined from a base frequency grid G0 having a plurality of frequencies evenly spaced by a frequency spacing Bc, merged with a plurality of shifted frequency grids Gs each shifted with respect to the base frequency G0 by a frequency shift df smaller than the frequency spacing Bc. The optical signal are encoded with OCDMA codes each using a plurality of optical pulses each having a frequency selected from the dense frequency grid Gm, the frequencies of the optical pulses of a given OCDMA code being distanced from each other by at least the frequency spacing Bc.