TY - JOUR JF - Optical Fiber Technology VL - 17 N2 - We have proposed a new Multi-Diagonal (MD) code for Spectral Amplitude - Coding Optical Code Division Multiple Access (SAC-OCDMA). Although this new MD code has many properties, one of the important properties of this code is that the cross correlation is always zero. Simplicity in code construction and flexibility in cross correlation control has made this code a compelling candidate for future OCDMA applications. The Multiple access interference (MAI) effects have been successfully and completely eliminated. Based on the theoretical analysis MD code is shown here to provide a much better performance compared to Modified Quadratic Congruence (MQC) code and Random Diagonal (RD) code. Proof-of-principle simulations of encoding with 5 and 10 users with 622 Mb/s data transmission at a BER of 10-12 have been successfully demonstrated together with the DIRECT detection scheme. © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. AV - none EP - 280 KW - Codes (symbols); Light interference; Multiple access interference; Network coding; Optical communication KW - Code construction; Cross correlations; Modified quadratic congruence code (MQC); Multi diagonal codes; Proof of principles; Random Diagonal Code; SAC-OCDMA systems; Spectral Amplitude CodingOptical Code Division Multiple Access (SAC-OCDMA) KW - Code division multiple access PB - Academic Press Inc. UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-80051472246&doi=10.1016%2fj.yofte.2011.04.002&partnerID=40&md5=5a45bc750bbc32a7c6027533d4c4542e Y1 - 2011/// A1 - Abd, T.H. A1 - Aljunid, S.A. A1 - Fadhil, H.A. A1 - Ahmad, R.A. A1 - Saad, N.M. ID - scholars2347 TI - Development of a new code family based on SAC-OCDMA system with large cardinality for OCDMA network SN - 10685200 IS - 4 SP - 273 N1 - cited By 95 ER -