New construction of multiwavelength optical orthogonal codes

We investigate multiwavelength optical orthogonal codes (MWOOCs) for optical code-division multiple access. Particularly, we present a new construction method for (mn,/spl lambda/+2,/spl lambda/) MWOOCs with the number of available wavelengths m, codeword length n, and constant Hamming weight /spl lambda/+2 that have autocorrelation and cross-correlation values not exceeding /spl lambda/. In the proposed scheme, there is no constraint on the relationship between the number of available wavelengths and the codeword length, and it is also possible to use an arbitrary /spl lambda/. We show that the constructed code is optimal, especially for /spl lambda/=1. Finally, we analyze the bit error rate of the new code and compare it with that of other optical codes.