OPTICAL FIBRE COMMUNICATION

SUB CODE (ECE 602)

CREDIT 5(3-1-1)

1. INTRODUCTION: Block diagram of optical fibre communication system, advantages

of optical fibre communication system.
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2. OPTICAL FIBRE:
Structure of optical wave guide, light propagation in optical fibre using ray theory,
acceptance angle, numerical aperture, skew rays, wave theory for optical propagation, Modes
in optical fibre, Step and Graded Index fibre, Single mode fibres cut-off wave length, mode
field diameter, effective refractive index, group and mode delay factor.
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3. TRANSMISSION CHARACTERISTICS OF OPTICAL FIBRE:
Signal degradation in optical fibre, attenuation in optical fibre, intrinsic and extrinsic
absorption, linear and non-linear scattering losses, fibre bend losses, Dispersion and pulse
broadening, intermodal and intermodal dispersion for step and graded index fibres, dispersion
flattened and dispersion shifted fibres, modal birefringence and polarization maintaining
fibres.
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4. OPTICAL SOURCES:
Optical sources, LED, LASER diode, Power launching and coupling , Basic concepts of
Einstein relation, population inversion, optical feedback and threshold condition, direct and
indirect band gap semiconductors, spontaneous and stimulated emission in p-n junctions,
double hetero junction structure, fabrication and characteristics of LEDs and semiconductor
laser diode .
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5. OPTICAL DETECTORS:
Requirement for photo detectors , p-n photo diode , characteristics of photo diode ,
characteristics of photo detectors , p-i-n and Avalanche photo diodes , Response time and
Avalanche multiplication noise, phototransistors & photo detectors .
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6. DIRECT DETECTION RECIEVER PERFORMANCE CONSIDERATION:
Noise sources in optical fibre communication, noise in p-n, p-i-n and APD Receivers,
receiver structure.
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7. OPTICAL FIBRE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM:
Principal components of optical fibre communication system, optical transmitter circuits LED
and LASER drive circuits. Optical receiver block diagram , pre amplifier, optical fibre link
design, power and rise time budgeting , Line coding block diagram and detection principal of
coherent optical fibre system.
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Text / Reference Books:

Text Book
1) Optical fibre communication : John M.S Senior PHI ; 2nd ED
2) Optical fibre communication: G.E. Keiser MGH; 3rd ED
3) Optical fibre communication: Wilson & Hawkes PHI; 2nd ED
P.T.O

List of Experiments:
1. Study of the external beam parameters of a He-Ne / Semiconductor LASER.
2. Power distribution within the beam.
3. Spot size of the beam.
4. Divergence of the beam.
5. To verify Snells law and determine the critical angle for high to low index
incidence.
6. Fibre-end preparation and launching light into fibres.
7. Setting up a fibre optic analog link and to measure the bandwidth of optical link.
8. Study of attenuation and bending losses in optical fibres.
9. Measurement of numerical aperture of different optical fibres.
10. Setting up a fibre optic digital link and to determine the maximum bit rate
transmitted through the link.
11. To study the characteristic of a fibre optic LED and photo detector.
12. Comparison of Led and LASER diode characteristics and hence to determine
LASER diode.
13. To measure the optical loss at a bulkhead ST connector using both LED and
LASER diode.
14. Determination of fibre link length and fibre attenuation coefficient.
15. Determination of bandwidth and fibre dispersions in a fibre optic communication
system.
16. Manchester Coding & De-coding.
17. Design of pre-amplifier for optical signal.
18. System design- a mini theoretical project.