Experimental model of Passive Optical Network Technical University of Kosice

This paper focuses on the analysis of passive optical network (Passive Optical Network - PON) by the program package OptSim and the subsequent measurement of a simulated network using OTDR (Optical Time Domain Reflectometer) in a functional physical model of optical fibre networks created by KEMT FEI TUKE (Department of Electronics and Multimedia Communications, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Technical University of Kosice). Nowadays, the construction of optical fibre communication systems can not function without software tools simulating a real network. This is done to avoid possible errors before the construction of communication systems. It is necessary to carry out the simulation of undesirable effects and phenomenas so that the proposed communication system is more suitable for the clients´ requirements. Within the TUKE campus there is available an experimental model of the optical network represented by the various buildings connected with single-mode optical fibres type G-652_D terminated with SC / APC connectors for network types PON and FTTx. Theoretical properties of optical fibre networks type G-652_D are compared with simulated values in the program OptSim and the results are measured by OTDR.