IMAGE FIBEROPTIC 2-DIMENSIONAL PARALLEL LINKS BASED UPON OPTICAL SPACE-CDMA - EXPERIMENT

Image fiber-optic two-dimensional (2-D) parallel data links based upon optical space-code division multiple access (CDMA) is implemented and experimentally demonstrated for the first time to the authors' knowle dge. In the experiment, each input 4 x 4 Bit-plane is optically encode d by an 8 x 8 2-D optical orthogonal signature pattern. The encoded Bi t-planes are spatially multiplexed, and it is transmitted through a 16 m-long image fiber having 3 x 10(4) pixels. Each receiver can properl y recover the intended input Bit-plane in the optical decoding process . This result will encourage the application of optical space-CDMA to future high-throughput 2-D parallel data links.