A New Family of 2-D Optical Orthogonal Codes for Optical CDMA Access Networks

A new family of 2-D OOC, PC/OOC, for use in optical CDMA access networks is proposed in this paper. Analysis of its auto-and-cross correlation property is given and proof of that its cardinality achieves the upper bound in theory is presented. In contrary to previously constructed codes, PC/OOC exhibits the characteristics that the construction algorithm is simple and the number of wavelengths is optional which makes PC/OOC truly applicable to OCDMA networks as multi-access codes and greatly facilitates the operation of OCDMA.