Asynchronous multirate pulse position modulation-code division multipl
e access (PPM-CDMA) is proposed for an indoor optical wireless lime di
spersive channel. As a signature sequence for CDMA, an optical orthogo
nal code (OOC) is used. The optical PPM-CDMA has advantages in that it
is power efficient and provides multirate services by simply varying
the modulation level for the fixed chip rate at the transmitter and sa
mpling time at the receiver.