Design and Performance Analysis of Simple WDM Optical Fiber Communication System

Abstract

WDM (wavelength division multiplexing) is used in this project to simultaneously send data over several channels at high speed. Single mode fiber is favored over Multimode fiber for long-distance communication. As data rate and optical fiber length grow, the quality factor falls. Dispersion effects on an 8-channel dense WDM system at a high data rate will be examined using the Optisystem 10 simulator. A dispersion compensation fiber (DCF) and an Erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) are used to compensate for the dispersion and attenuation in the transmitted optical signal, respectively. Bit error rate (BER) and eye diagram analyzers were used to evaluate the optical communication system's performance.