Michie, CraigAndonovic, IvanAtkinson, R.Deng, YanhuaSzefer, YakubBrès, CamilleHuang, Yue KaiGlesk, IvanPrucnal, PaulSasaki, KensukeGupta, Gayaneshwar2011-12-152011-12-152011-12-15200710.1364/JON.6.000663https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/73190The results of a range of experimental characterization exercises of interferometric noise for the case of a representative 2-D time-spreading wavelengthhopping optical code family are presented. Interferometric noise is evaluated at a data rate of 2.5 Gbits/s within an OCDMA network emulation test bed established utilizing fiber Bragg grating encoders/decoders. The results demonstrate that this form of noise introduces significant system power penalties and must be taken into consideration in any OCDMA network designs and implementations.text::journal::journal article::research article