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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Optical Auto-Correlation Peak Discriminator For Optical CDMA Signal Detection

Mable P. Fok, Yanhua Deng, Paul R. Prucnal

Published Jan 1, 2009• 1 citation
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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate a compact optical auto-correlation peak discriminator based on four-wave mixing in a highly-nonlinear bismuth-oxide fiber. The discriminator rejects cross-correlation peaks, thus improves the detection of optical CDMA signal and removes the error-floor.
DOI
10.1364/cleo.2009.jwa8

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