Performance Evaluation of Single-mode and Multimode Fiber in LAN Environment

Optical networks are high capacity networks that meet the rapidly growing demand for bandwidth in the terrestrial telecommunications industry. This paper studies and evaluates singlemode and multimode fiber transmission by varying the distance. It focuses on their performance in LAN environment. This is achieved by observing the pulse spreading and attenuation in optical spectrum and eye-diagram that are obtained using OptSim simulator. The behaviors of two modes with different distance of data transmission are studied, evaluated and compared.

Authors:

• Farah Diyana Abdul Rahman
• Wajdi Al-Khateeb
• Aisha Hassan Abdalla Hashim

Keywords:

• Attenuation
• eye diagram
• fiber transmissions
• multimode fiber
• pulse dispersion
• OSNR
• single-mode fiber.

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