Performance Analysis of WDM RoF-EPON Link with and without DCF and FBG

Baljeet Kaur, Ajay K. Sharma, Vinod Kapoor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, India.
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana, India.
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, India.

DOI: 10.4236/opj.2013.32027                

Abstract

Performance of WDM ethernet passive optical network (EPON) with radio over fiber (RoF) optical link has been analyzed with the use of dispersion compensating fiber (DCF) and fiber bragg grating (FBG) to compensate the dispersion and four wave mixing. With the use of DCF and FBG, performance of the system is improved by 77.67%. Results are compared with and without DCF + FBG for different optical power and fiber length. The BER, Q factor and eye diagrams have been obtained for evaluating the performance of the system.

Keywords

Optical Network Unit; Optical Line Termination; BER; EPON; RoF; DCF; FBG

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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