Abstract:
This Thesis presents a method for designing and assembling a prototype of optical transponder, to be used for 2.5 Gb/s data transmission in optical communication system. The direct modulation and direct detection techniques are chosen for this prototype of optical transponder due to their simplicity and requirement of fewer additional components. Therefore, the production cost of this prototype will be reduced. Nonetheless, the accuracy in high-speed data transmission of this prototype is still very low, as confirmed by its bit error rate performance still better than 10[superscript -9] and the prototype passes commercial standard ITU-T Recommend G.957.