PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF MULTIPLEXING TECHNIQUES FOR PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK

Abstract

Recently, fiber optic networks are widely used because it has high data rate, capacity and could life along more than 20 years and it can reach a far distance. Passive optic networks offered high capacity and better performance according to the data rate and bandwidth and then reduced consumption of fiber optic (i.e., length, cables) and increase the capacity of customers. There are more techniques that expansion the spread spectrum of fiber optic included Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) and Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM). This thesis focuses in the comparison between TDM/WDM according to the quality factor and bit error rate with distance (length of fiber optic) by utilizing of the Opti-system software. the WDM outperform than TDM with the fiber length increasing.