2008 IEEE Sarnoff Symposium

April 28 - 30, 2008, Nassau Inn in Princeton, NJ, USA

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2007 Sarnoff Symposium

Tutorials

Optical CDMA: Fundamentals, Developments, and Applications

Wing C. Kwong

Department of Engineering
Hofstra University
Hempstead, NY 11549, USA
Email: Wing.C.Kwong@Hofstra.edu

Duration: 2 hours, including 5-10 minutes Q&A

Summary

Since the early 1980s, there have been steady developments in the coding schemes and enabling technologies of optical code division multiple access (O-CDMA). With the advance in technology, the progress in O-CDMA is tremendous recently. O-CDMA systems are now closer to be deployable than ever before.
In this tutorial, we will first compare several known optical multiple access schemes. Afterwards, various coding schemes, code designs, and enabling technologies of O-CDMA are examined. Finally, recent developments and potential applications of O-CDMA will be presented.

Short Bio:
Wing C. Kwong received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, in 1992. After graduation, he joined the faculty of Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, where he is presently a professor in the Department of Engineering.

His research interests are centered on optical communication systems and multiple-access networks, optical interconnection networks, and ultrafast all-optical signal processing techniques. He has published over 120 professional articles, and chaired technical sessions and served technical program committees in various international conferences. He has given invited seminars in various countries, such as Canada, Korea, and Taiwan. He is a co-author of the first-of-its-kind technical book on optical CDMA, “Prime codes with applications to CDMA optical and wireless networks” (Norwood, MA: Artech House), in 2002. He has also contributed one chapter to another optical CDMA book, “Optical Code Division Multiple Access: Fundamentals and Applications” (Boca Raton, FL: Taylor & Francis), in 2006.

Dr. Kwong is a senior member of the IEEE and an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications. He was the recipient of the NEC Graduate Fellowship awarded by the NEC Research Institute, USA, in 1991. He received the Young Engineer Award from the IEEE (Long Island Chapter) in 1998.