Abstract:
The power and rise time budgets are two important approaches in designing fiber optic links. The power budget approach must take into the consideration the power levels across the link. In the rise time approach, the system designer must take into account the temporal response of the system components. In this research a fiber optic link calculator was designed using visual basic 6.0. The calculator was designed to be user friendly and to fulfill all requirements of both approaches. An executable file was made to run the calculator in all computers under all windows operating system that have DLL libraries which comes with the visual basic.
