The invention relates to the technical field of
optical fiber communication, and discloses a fault positioning device and method for a
passive optical network, the device mainly comprises an
optical link terminal, an optical distribution network and an
optical network unit, the
optical link terminal comprises a communication light generation unit, a detection light generation unit, a first
wavelength division
multiplexer and a fault positioning unit, the optical distribution network comprises a second
wavelength division
multiplexer, a first optical splitter, a second optical splitter, a plurality of optical encoders and a plurality of third
wavelength division multiplexers, the second wavelength division
multiplexer is used for separating the mixed light into communication optical signals and detection optical signals, and the first optical splitter is used for distributing the communication optical signals; a plurality of output ends of the second optical splitter are respectively connected to input ends of a plurality of optical encoders, each optical
encoder performs
time domain encoding on the detection optical
signal, and an output end of each optical
encoder is connected with a second input end of the third wavelength division multiplexer. According to the invention, high-efficiency, accurate and intelligent positioning of the high-splitting-ratio
passive optical network fault is realized.