%0 Journal Article %A Tawfig Eltaif and Hesham A. Bakarman and N. Alsowaidi and M. R. Mokhtar and Malek Harbawi %D 2015 %J International Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering %B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology %I Open Science Index 103, 2015 %T Reduction of Multiple User Interference for Optical CDMA Systems Using Successive Interference Cancellation Scheme %U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10002088 %V 103 %X Multiple User Interference (MUI) considers the primary problem in Optical Code-Division Multiple Access (OCDMA), which resulting from the overlapping among the users. In this article we aim to mitigate this problem by studying an interference cancellation scheme called successive interference cancellation (SIC) scheme. This scheme will be tested on two different detection schemes, spectral amplitude coding (SAC) and direct detection systems (DS), using partial modified prime (PMP) as the signature codes. It was found that SIC scheme based on both SAC and DS methods had a potential to suppress the intensity noise, that is to say it can mitigate MUI noise. Furthermore, SIC/DS scheme showed much lower bit error rate (BER) performance relative to SIC/SAC scheme for different magnitude of effective power. Hence, many more users can be supported by SIC/DS receiver system. %P 697 - 702