Optical Fibre Communication: A review

Abstract

Recently, optical fiber communication technology have made great progress, where has been constantly exploring new technologies has greatly enhanced communications capabilities in the traditional sense, this makes the optical fiber communication technology in a broader context has been applied. Deployment of optical communication systems is costly and reconfiguration is in some cases impossible or uneconomical, therefore the experiments and simulation of systems has become necessity to predict and optimize system performance. This paper deals with communication using optical fibres. The transmission using high bandwidth can handle vast amounts of information, which can be further improved by reduction in fibre losses, increase in data rates and distances, development of optical sources and detectors compatible with fibres. The recent development in the area of fibre optic communication as well as the advances in different fibre types and their properties, optical sources, detectors, system limitations and applications are also discussed in the paper