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The document contains problems about chromatic dispersion in optical fibers. It asks to calculate dispersion values given properties like group velocity and dispersion parameter. It also asks to calculate pulse broadening due to material dispersion over a fiber length. Another problem asks to find the spectral width required to limit dispersion to a given amount. The final problem deals with calculating the bit-rate distance product achievable given waveguide dispersion properties.

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The document contains problems about chromatic dispersion in optical fibers. It asks to calculate dispersion values given properties like group velocity and dispersion parameter. It also asks to calculate pulse broadening due to material dispersion over a fiber length. Another problem asks to find the spectral width required to limit dispersion to a given amount. The final problem deals with calculating the bit-rate distance product achievable given waveguide dispersion properties.

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EC5100 Fiber Optic Communication System Design JAN-MAY 2022

Tutorial 3
Last Date of Submission: Feb 4, 2022

1. Chromatic dispersion can be represented by a frequency-dependent propagation constant


β(ω).
Suppose the propagation constant of a single-mode fiber is given as follows
β(ω) = Aω0 + B(ω − ω0 ) + C(ω − ω0 )2
where ω0 corresponds to the wavelength used at 1550 nm.
At the wavelength of use, the fiber has a group velocity of vg = 2×108 m/s and a chro-
matic dispersion parameter D=15ps/nm-km. Find the values of B and C in the above
expression.
2. For an optical fiber, the group delay T over a wavelength range is given as
T = A + Bλ2 + Cλ−2
Show that the dispersion at a wavelength is given as
 4 !
λS0 λ0
D(λ) = 1−
4 λ

where S0 is the slope of D(λ) at zero dispersion wavelength.


3. Consider a multi-mode step-index fiber of core radius 50µm, refractive index of core
1.46, fractional refractive index difference of 2% and operating with material dispersion
coefficient of 40ps/nm-km at 1550nm. The fiber is illuminated with an LED source
operating at 1550nm with spectral width of 11THz.
(a) Find the dispersion if a pulse is sent over a 10km link. (Neglect contribution from
waveguide dispersion)
(b) If we replace the multimode fiber with a single mode fiber, find the spectral width
of the source that will ensure the total dispersion to be less than 0.5ns.
4. The material dispersion parameter for a glass fiber is 20ps nm−1 km−1 at a wavelength of
1.5µm. Estimate the pulse broadening due to material dispersion within the fiber when
light is launched from an injection laser source with a peak wavelength of 1.5µm and an
rms spectral width of 2nm into a 30km length of the fiber.
5. The empirical relation for b-V for the fundamental mode can be expressed as
 2
B
b= A−
V
where A=1.1428 and B=0.996. Assuming that only waveguide dispersion is present in
the fiber, find the bit-rate distance product that could be achieved when the signal is
propagated in a fiber with n2 =1.48, ∆=0.2% at wavelength of (a)1310nm (b)1550nm.
Assume that the source used at 1310nm has a width of 2nm and 0.01nm at 1550nm.
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