Data Transmission over Polymer Optical Fibers based Hybrid Photonic Network for Short Range Application

Photonic network was used with fire control system by replacing the copper cables with polymer optical fibers in order to increase the transmission data rate and the bandwidth. In this paper, CYTOP was chosen to be used to transmit the different signals that are sent from several sensors to ballistic computer due to the superior performance among the other types of polymer fibers. The proposed special photonic networks were implemented for different multiplexing techniques using optisystem software. These techniques were Optical Time Division Multiplexing (OTDM), Optical Wavelength Division Multiplexing (OWDM), and Mode Division Multiplexing (MDM). Based on simulated Q factor, BER, and the eye diagram, OWDM showed the highest performance with increasing number of laser sources (8 laser sources). Hybrid OWDM-MDM network was proposed to minimize the number of laser sources (4 laser sources) while keeping high performance which makes it the most suitable choice for special platforms.