Extended AbstractWe investigate the performance of CDMA. systems with laser chirping effects, single mode fiber dispersion effect and by assuming a Poisson shot noise model for an APD receiver. We develop the time-domain simulation models for the functional blocks in CDMA LANs and evaluate the end-to-end system performance using these models. The use of direct sequence CDMA LANs attracts attention due to the improved usage of the bandwidth of the optical fiber [1] [2] . We investigate the effect of using non-ideal components (sources, medium, detectors) on the performance of such a CDMA fiber-optic LAN. In our simulation the system comprises of the following signal processing blocks-Data source (NRZ) , Electrically programmable encoder, Laser, Optical encoder and decoder, Single mode fiber and Receiver.Simulation of Laser The direct current modulation of single-longitudinal mode semiconductor lasers causes a dynamic shift of the peak emission wavelength. The magnitude of the chirping induced performance degradation increases with the transmission bit rate and can ultimately limit achievable system performance [3] The injected laser current which is given by 1(t) = k=oo .'bias + k=-oo Ak * 1p (t -kT) where 'bias IS the bias current, the sequence Ak denotes the independently distributed data values, T is the signaling rate and 4, (t)is the applied current pulse. The optical power and the chirping response of the semiconductor laser to the current waveform 1(i) is determined by means of the large signal rate equations, which describe the interrelationship of the photon density , carrier density , and optical phase within the laser cavity.o{Fg0(N(t) -N0) --}where N(t) -electron density, 5(t) -photon density, g0 -differential gain, N0 -carrier density for transparency, r , T -electron & photon lifetime respectively, 1(t) -input current, V -volume of active layer, e -electron charge, 4 -the optical phase, F -the mode confinement factor, /3 -is the fraction of spontaneous emission coupled in the lasing mode, c -linewidth enhancement factor and -the gain compression factor. The time variation for the optical power and laser chirp are given by power(t) = 052' riohv , 1 respectively where hii is the photon energy at the frequency 1-' and ijo is the differential quantum efficiency.