Analysis and Simulation of Optical Spectral Phase Encoding using an Array of Fabri-Perot Interferometers and Code Division Multiplexing

Abstract

This paper proposes a method for a scheme of spectral phase encoding with resolution of up to 10 MHz and addressability of 40GHz, for a typical wide-band optical data carrying signal, by means of optical instruments and prior knowledge about the signal. The setup includes an array of Fabri-Perot Interferometers (FPI) which bypass the grating limitations, and a phase-only spatial light modulator (SLM) to properly encode the diffracted light. Their arrangement along with the method of Optical Code Division Multiple Access (OCDMA) was simulated, and promised fine results for various encoding schemes.