IIMT COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, Gr.

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ASSIGNMENT -1
Subject:: OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION Subject Code::TEC-701
Faculty:: Aruna Pathak Branch:EC
Assignment Date::7th Oct 2010 Last Date of submission:: 18th Oct 2010
1> What are the advantages of a coherent optical comm. System? Discuss its block diagram
& Explain the principle of heterodyne detector used in optical system.
2> What is direct intensity modulation Explain the working

3> What is meant by receiver sensitivity and dynamic range of optical system?
How the optical power budgeting is performed in digital optical system?
4> What is the necessity of preamplifier in optical receiver? Mention the types of
preamplifier & explain working of trans-impedance preamplifier
5> What are the advantages of trans-impedance preamplifier over high impedance FET
preamplifier?
6> Draw the block diagram of optical receiver & explain AGC in brief?
7> Why equalization is needed in optical receiver & how it is done?
8> Draw & explain the block diagram of regenerative repeater?
9> Write the short note on:
a) BER of optical receiver.
b) Channel loss.
10> Explain the working of digital drive circuit for :
a) LED source.
b) LASER source.
ASSIGNMENT -2
1> Discuss the major consideration in the design of digital drive circuits for:
(a) An LED source; (b)An injection laser source.
Illustrate your answer with an example of a drive circuit for each source.
2> A 1.5 MHz information signal with a dynamic range of 64 mV is sampled, quantized and
encoded using a direct binary code. The quantization is linear with 512 levels.
Determine:(a) The maximum possible bit duration;
 (b)The amplitude of one quantization level.
3> Describe, with the aid of a suitable block diagram, the operation of an optical fiber
regenerative repeater .Indicate reasons for the occurrence of bit errors in the regenerative
process and outline a technique for establishing the quality of the channel.
4> Twenty-four 4kHz speech channels are sampled, quantized, encoded and then time
division multiplexed for the transmission as binary PCM on a digital optical fiber link.
The quantizer is linear with 0.5 mV steps over a dynamic range of 2.048 V.
Calculate:
(a) The frame length of the PCM transmission, assuming an additional channel time slot
is used for signaling and synchronization;
(b) The required channel bandwidth assuming NRZ pulses.
5> The amplifier indicated in fig represents a load of 5kohm to the photo detector and
together with the photo detector gives a total capacitance of 5pF.However, the desired
response from the amplifier –equalizer configuration has an upper 3dB point or corner
frequency at 30MHz. Assuming R2 is fixed at 100ohm determine the required value for
C1 and R1 in order to obtain such a response.
6> Briefly explain ISI penalty.
7> Explain the principal components of an optical fiber system. What are source
limitations explain them in brief?
8> What is acceptance angle and numerical aperture?
9> A single mode fiber maintains birefrigent coherence over a length of 100km when it is
illuminated with a laser source of spectral width 1.5 nm and a peak wavelength of 1.32
micron. Find the beat length within the fiber.
10> A multimedia graded index fiber exhibits a total pulse broadening of 1.2ns over a
distance of 30k. Determine the pulse dispersion per unit length.

ASSIGNMENT -3
1> Explain the advantages of optical communication.
2> What are Meridional and Skew rays? How these rays propagate inside an optical
fiber?
3> Write short note on:
(a) Intra modal dispersions
(b) Inter modal dispersions
4> Explain the following terms :
(a) Normalized propagation constant
(b) Mode field diameter
5> Explain modal birefringence and beat length in single mode fiber. What is
polarization mode dispersion?
6> Differentiate between Step index fiber and graded index fiber. Explain the
propagation of light in both.
7> Differentiate between
(a) Single mode fiber and Multimode fiber.
(a) Stimulated emission and spontaneous emission.
8> Write a note on polarization maintaining fiber.
9> Explain the losses caused by linear and non linear scattering in optical fiber material.
10> What is modal noise? Explain the working of dispersion shifted fiber.