SIDDHARTH INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

(AUTONOMOUS)
(16EC430) Optical Fiber Communication
IV B. Tech –I Sem. (E.C.E.) L T C

3 1 3

Course Objectives:
To understand Optical Fiber Communications
To understand the Ray Theory, single & amplitude; multimode fibers, fiber materials,
losses, dispersion in OFC

To understand the connectors, splices, couplers, LASER, LED sources

Course Outcomes:
To learn the basic elements of optical fiber transmission link, fiber modes configurations and
structures.

To understand the different kind of losses, signal distortion in optical wave guides and other signal
degradation factors.

To learn the various optical source materials and optical receivers such as LED
structures, quantum efficiency, Laser diodes, PIN, APD diodes, noise performance in
photo detector, receiver operation and configuration.

Analyze the use of analog and digital links such as the various criteria like power
loss wavelength to be considered for point to point link in digital link system.

To learn the fiber optical network components, variety of networking aspects,

and operational principles WDM

UNIT-I
Introduction to Optical Fibers: Evolution of fiber optic system, Element of an Optical
Fiber Transmission link, Ray Optics, Optical Fiber Modes and Configurations, Mode theory
of Circular Wave guides, Overview of Modes, Single Mode fibers, Graded Index fiber
structure.

UNIT-II
Signal Degradation Optical fibers: Attenuation, Absorption losses, scattering losses,
Bending Losses, Core and Cladding losses, Signal Distortion in Optical Wave Guides-
Information Capacity determination, Group Delay, Signal distortion in SM fibers-
Polarization Mode dispersion, Intermodal dispersion, Design Optimization of SM fibers-RI
profile and cut-off wavelength.
UNIT-III

Fiber Optical Sources and Coupling: Direct and indirect Band gap materials, LED
structures, Light source materials, Quantum efficiency and LED power, Modulation of a
LED, lasers Diodes-Modes and Threshold condition, Rate equations, External Quantum
efficiency, Resonant frequencies, Temperature effects, Introduction to Quantum laser,
source-to-fiber Power Launching, Lensing schemes, Fiber –to- Fiber joints, Fiber splicing.

UNIT-IV

Fiber Optical Receivers: PIN and APD diodes, Photo detector noise, SNR, Detector
Response time, Avalanche Multiplication Noise, Comparison of Photo detectors.
Fundamental Receiver Operation, pre-amplifiers, Error Sources, Receiver Configuration,
Probability of Error, Quantum Limit

UNIT-V

Design of Analog &Digital Systems: System specification, Rise Time Budget, Bandwidth
Budget Power Budget, Receiver Sensitivity.

WDM Concepts: Passive components, Operational Principles of WDM, Tunable sources,

Solitons, Optical CDMA.

Text Books:

1. Gerd Keiser, ―Optical Fiber Communication‖ McGraw –Hill International,

Singapore, 3rd ed., 2000

2. J.Senior, ―Optical Communication, Principles and Practice‖, Prentice Hall of India, 1994.

References:

1. Max Ming-Kang Liu, ―Principles and Applications of Optical Communications‖, TMH,

2010

2. S.C. Gupta, ―Text book on optical fiber communication and its applications‖, PHI, 2005.

3. Satish Kumar, ―Fundamentals of Optical Fiber communications‖, PHI, 2009.