Optical Communications
OBJECTIVES
The student will be introduced to the functionality of each of the components that comprise a fiber-optic communication system
• the properties of optical fiber that affect the performance of a communication link and types of fiber materials with their properties and the losses occur in fibers.
• the principles of single and multi-mode optical fibers and their characteristics
• working of semiconductor lasers, and differentiate between direct modulation and
external electro-optic modulation.
• Analyze the operation of LEDs, laser diodes, and PIN photo detectors (spectral properties, bandwidth, and circuits)
and apply in optical systems.
• Analyze and design optical communication and fiber optic sensor systems.
• the models of analog and digital receivers.
CO1: Should be able to review the propagation of light in various fibers, operation
of optical transmitter and receiver, Concepts of Fiber optic networks.
CO2: Analyze the channel impairments like losses and dispersion.
CO3: Illustrate the losses associated with fiber optic components.
CO4: Evaluate the SNR, quantum efficiency for various sources and detectors
CO5: Design a simple fiber optic link.
UNIT I Overview of optical fiber communication - Historical development,
The general system, advantages of optical fiber communications. Optical fiber
wave guides- Introduction, Ray theory transmission, Total Internal Reflection,
Acceptance angle, Numerical Aperture, Skew rays, Cylindrical fibers- Modes,
V-number, Mode coupling, Step Index fibers, Graded Index fibers, Single mode
fibers- Cut off wavelength, Mode Field Diameter, Effective Refractive Index,
Related problems.
UNIT II Fiber materials:- Glass, Halide, Active glass,
Chalgenide glass, Plastic optical fibers. Signal distortion in optical
fibers-Attenuation, Absorption, Scattering and Bending losses, Core and Cladding
losses, Information capacity determination, Group delay, Types of Dispersion:-
Material dispersion, Wave-guide dispersion, Polarization-Mode dispersion,
Intermodal dispersion, Pulse broadening in Graded index fiber, Related problems.
UNIT III . Optical fiber Connectors-Connector types, Single mode fiber
connectors, Connector return loss, Fiber Splicing- Splicing techniques, Splicing
single mode fibers, Fiber alignment and joint loss- Multimode fiber joints,
single mode fiber joints.
UNIT IV Optical sources- LEDs, Structures, Materials,
Quantum efficiency, Power, Modulation, Power bandwidth product. Injection Laser
Diodes- Modes, Threshold conditions, External quantum efficiency, Laser diode
rate equations, Resonant frequencies, Reliability of LED&ILD, Optical detectors-
Physical principles of PIN and APD, Detector response time, Temperature effect
on Avalanche gain, Comparison of Photo detectors, Related problems.
UNIT V Source to fiber power launching - Output patterns, Power coupling, Power
launching, Equilibrium Numerical Aperture, Laser diode to fiber coupling,
Optical receiver operation- Fundamental receiver operation, Digital signal
transmission, error sources, Receiver configuration, Digital receiver
performance, Probability of Error, Quantum limit, Analog receivers.
UNIT VI
Optical system design - Point-to- point links- Component choice and
considerations, Link power budget, Rise time budget with examples, Line coding
in Optical links, WDM, Necessity, Principles, Measurement of Attenuation and
Dispersion, Eye pattern.
TEXT BOOKS : 1. Optical Fiber Communications – Gerd Keiser, Mc Graw-Hill International edition, 3rd Edition, 2000.
2. Optical Fiber Communications – John M. Senior, PHI, 2nd Edition, 2002.
RERFERENCES : 1. Fiber Optic Communications – D.K. Mynbaev , S.C. Gupta and Lowell L. Scheiner, Pearson
Education,2005.
2. Text Book on Optical Fiber Communication and its Applications
– S.C.Gupta, PHI, 2005.
3. Fiber Optic Communication Systems – Govind P. Agarwal , John Wiley, 3rd Ediition, 2004.
4. Fiber Optic Communications – Joseph C.Palais, 4th Edition, Pearson Education, 2004.
OUTCOMES After going through this course the student will be able to
• Choose necessary components required in modern optical communications systems .
• Design and build optical fiber experiments in the laboratory, and learn how to calculate electromagnetic modes in waveguides, the amount of light lost going through an optical system, dispersion of optical fibers.
• Use different types of photo detectors and optical test equipment to analyze optical fiber and light wave systems.
• Choose the optical cables for better communication with minimum losses Design, build, and demonstrate optical fiber experiments in the laboratory.
II BCA Questions
Answer the following questions 1 to 6 Program: 2100 H contents 42 H 2101 H contents 46 H LHLD 2100 XCHG HLT 1. What is the content of H Register before XCHG? 2. What is the content of L Register before XCHG? 3. What is the content of accumulator? 4. What is the content of D Register after the program is executed? 5. What is the content of DE pair at the end? 6. What is the content of HL pair after the program is executed? For questions 7 to 9 refer the following program MVI A,85 H XRA A DAA HLT 7. The content of accumulator at the end is______________ 8. If XRA A is replaced by ORA A then the content of accumulator _____ 9. If DAA is replaced by ORA A then the content of accumulator will be given by__
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