This letter investigates the signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) performance
of a single chip rate variable processing gain optical fast frequency hopp
ing CDMA (OFFH-CDMA) system, using direct detection. A system model that al
lows multirate transmission is presented. In addition, the SIR is derived.
A comparison between the exact value of the SIR and the approximation one a
ssuming random sequences is also discussed.