Performance Analysis and Applications of Passive Optical Networks

Year 2014, Volume: 14 Issue: 2, 1843 - 1848, 25.03.2015

Özge Güre , Necmiye Ünverdi

Abstract

Fiber technology, which provides high bandwidth in data, sound and video traffic in communication networks, as well as in new applications, has reached to the end user. FTTH (Fiber-to-the-Home) and PON (Passive Optical Networks) technologies, which reduce costs, have changed our lives. Reaching further distances and even more users with each passing day is aimed with this structure. In this study, topologies that could be developed to increase the performance of optical communication which is compatible with power budget calculation in theory with OptiSystem 12.0 simulation program in passive optical networks are examined. The effects of electro-optical components which are added to the system on PON are analysed through utilising BER (Bit Error Rate) diagrams, time domain and spectrum outputs.

Keywords

Communication technologies, optical fiber, passive optical networks, bit error rate, fiber to the home.

References

• Green P. E., Fiber to the Home: The New Empowerment, John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey, 2006.
• Lam C. F., Passive Optical Networks Principles and Practice, Academic Press – Elsevier, Burlington, 2007.
• Keiser, G., FTTX Concepts and Applications, John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey, 2006.
• Banerjee A., Kramer G., Dixit S., Ye Y. and Mukherjee B., Advances in Passive Optical Networks (PONs), Springer-Verlag Telos, California, 2004.
• Chocrhliouros I. P. and Heliotis G. A., Optical Access Networks and Advanced Photonics: Technologies and Deployment Strategies, Information Science Reference, New York, 2009.
• Güre Ö., Passive Optical Networks and Applications, Master Thesis, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2012.
• Karlık S. E, Yılmaz G. and Geren K., “Polarization Mode Dispersion in Optical Fiber and the Fixed Analyzer Measurements with Jones Matrix Method”, Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering 10th Proceedings of the National Congress, September 2003, Bursa, pp. 418-421.
• Ünverdi N. Ö. and Ünverdi N. A., “Modeling of Optical Communication Systems”, V. URSI - Turkey’2010 Scientific Congress, National General Assembly, 25-27 August 2010, METU - Northern Cyprus Campus, Guzelyurt, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, pp. 436-4
• O. Gure was born in 1987 in Kirklareli, Turkey. She received her B.S degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Electrics & Electronics Engineering Department of Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey in 2009. She graduated from Yildiz Technical University with a Masters degree from the same department, in 2012.
• Since 2009 she has been working as a Project Engineer in Superonline which is a service provider in Turkey. Beside network applications , she is interested in optical devices and optical communication systems.
• N. O. Unverdi was born in 1967 in Aydin, Turkey. She received her B.S degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Electrics & Electronics Engineering Department of Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1989. She earned her M.S and Ph.D degrees in the field of Communications from the same university in 1991 and 1998, respectively.
• She has worked as a Research Assistant at Yildiz Technical University, Electrics & Electronics Engineering Department, Electronics and Communications Engineering Division, Istanbul, Turkey between 1990 and 1999. She has been working as an Assistant Professor in the same department since 1999. Her research areas of interest include optical communications, optical waveguides, communications systems, transmission technologies, antennas, propagation and bioelectromagnetism.