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This document provides details of the Optical Fiber Communication course code EC-421. The course is divided into 5 units covering topics such as optical fiber components, optical sources, photo detectors, signal degradation in fibers, optical receivers, wavelength division multiplexing, and optical amplifiers. The document lists 7 references books and 9 experiments that involve topics like launching light into fibers, measuring fiber attenuation loss, and setting up analog and digital fiber optic links.

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EC421

This document provides details of the Optical Fiber Communication course code EC-421. The course is divided into 5 units covering topics such as optical fiber components, optical sources, photo detectors, signal degradation in fibers, optical receivers, wavelength division multiplexing, and optical amplifiers. The document lists 7 references books and 9 experiments that involve topics like launching light into fibers, measuring fiber attenuation loss, and setting up analog and digital fiber optic links.

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Course Code: EC 421

Breakup: 3 0 2 4
Course Name: Optical Fiber Communication
Course Details:
Unit-I
Overview of Optical Fiber Communications (OFC): Motivation, optical spectral bands, key elements of
optical fiber systems. Optical fibers: basic optical laws and definitions, optical fiber modes and
configurations, mode theory for circular waveguides, single mode fibers, graded-index fiber structure,
fiber materials, photonic crystal fibers, fiber fabrication, fiber optic cables.
Unit-II
Optical sources: Light emitting diodes (LED): structures, materials, quantum efficiency, LED power,
modulation of an LED. Laser diodes: modes, threshold conditions, laser diode rate equations, external
quantum efficiency, resonant frequencies, structure and radiation patterns, single mode lasers, modulation
of laser diodes. Power launching and coupling: source to fiber power launching, fiber to fiber joints, LED
coupling to single mode fibers, fiber splicing, optical fiber connectors.
Unit-III
Photo detectors: pin photo detector, avalanche photodiodes, photo detector noise, detector response time,
avalanche multiplication noise. Signal degradation in optical fibers: Attenuation: units, absorption,
scattering losses, bending losses, core and cladding losses. Signal distortion in fibers: overview of
distortion origins, modal delay, factors contributing to delay, group delay, material dispersion, waveguide
dispersion, polarization-mode dispersion. Characteristics of single mode fibers: refractive index profiles,
cutoff wavelength, dispersion calculations, mode field diameter, bending loss calculation. Specialty
fibers.
Unit-IV
Optical receivers: fundamental receiver operation, digital receiver performance, eye diagrams, coherent
detection: homodyne and heterodyne, burst mode receiver, analog receivers. Digital links: point to point
links, link power budget, rise time budget, power penalties. Analog links: overview of analog links,
carrier to noise ratio, multi channel transmission techniques.
Unit-V
Optical technologies Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) concepts: operational principles of
WDM, passive optical star coupler, isolators, circulators, active optical components: MEMS technology,
variable optical attenuators, tunable optical filters, dynamic gain equalizers, polarization controller,
chromatic dispersion compensators. Optical amplifiers: basic applications and types of optical amplifiers,
Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifiers (EDFA): amplification mechanism, architecture, power conversion
efficiency and gain. Amplifier noise, optical SNR, system applications. Performance Measurement and
monitoring: measurement standards, basic test equipment, optical power measurements, optical fiber
characterization, eye diagram tests, optical time-domain reflectometer, optical performance monitoring.

References:
1. Keiser: Optical Fiber Communications, TMH.
2. Senior: Optical Fiber Communication- Principles and Practices, Pearson Education.
3. Agarwal: Fiber Optic Communication Systems, Wiley India.
4. Palais: Fiber Optics Communications, Pearson Education.
5. Satish Kumar: Fundamentals of optical Communications, PHI Learning.
6. Khare: Fiber Optics and Optoelectronics, Oxford University Press.
7. Ghatak and Thyagrajan: Fiber Optics and Lasers, Macmillan India Ltd.
8. Gupta: Optoelectronic Devices and Systems, PHI Learning.
9. Sterling: Introduction to Fiber Optics, Cengage Learning.

List of Experiments:
1. Launching of light into the optical fiber and calculate the numerical aperture and V-number.
2. Observing Holograms and their study.
3. Measurement of attenuation loss in an optical fiber.
4. Diffraction using gratings.
5. Construction of Michelson interferometer.
6. Setting up a fiber optic analog link and study of PAM.
7. Setting up a fiber optic digital link and study of TDM and Manchester coding.
8. Measurement of various misalignment losses in an optical fiber.

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