The results of a preliminary experimental characterization of beat noise for the case of a particular two-dimensional time-spreading wavelength-hopping optical code family are presented. Beat noise is evaluated at a data rate of 2.5 Gb/s with and without time gating. Results indicate that this form of noise introduces significant system power penalties for both cases, with the former approach more robust in this respect
Published in:
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
(Volume:18
,
Issue:
21
)
Date of Publication: Nov.1, 2006