Novel spatial spread spectrum based fiber optic CDMA networks for image transmission

Novel code division multiple access (CDMA) fiber optic networks based on spatial frequency spread spectrum for image transmissions are proposed. Two key technologies are the parallel fiber optic transmission of spatially encoded images and parallel access to image data through optical spatial encoding and decoding. The temporal signature sequences used in conventional time-domain CDMA are replaced by two-dimensional (2-D) signature patterns to encode and decode binary image pixels. This enables the fully parallel access and transmission of images. The fundamental rules and methodology to construct optical orthogonal signature patterns (OOSP) are presented. Furthermore, it is shown that the all-optical implementation of the proposed system is feasible by utilizing optically addressable spatial light modulators in both the spatial encoder and the decoder along with multicore fibers as the parallel image transmission medium. The predicted overall throughput can reach 10 Tb/s.>