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National Institute of Technology, Trichy - 620015 Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

This document contains an exam for a fiber optic communications course, with 5 questions covering various topics: 1) Calculation of numerical aperture, acceptance angle, and critical angle for a multimode fiber, and number of modes in a multimode fiber at different wavelengths. 2) Calculation of attenuation from power loss over distance, and minimum input power required to maintain an output power over different loss values. 3) Calculation of threshold gain for a Fabry-Perot laser diode, and power reflected and lost at a fiber optic joint with and without index matching. 4) Calculation of quantum efficiency and responsivity for a silicon photodiode, and signal-to-noise ratio

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National Institute of Technology, Trichy - 620015 Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

This document contains an exam for a fiber optic communications course, with 5 questions covering various topics: 1) Calculation of numerical aperture, acceptance angle, and critical angle for a multimode fiber, and number of modes in a multimode fiber at different wavelengths. 2) Calculation of attenuation from power loss over distance, and minimum input power required to maintain an output power over different loss values. 3) Calculation of threshold gain for a Fabry-Perot laser diode, and power reflected and lost at a fiber optic joint with and without index matching. 4) Calculation of quantum efficiency and responsivity for a silicon photodiode, and signal-to-noise ratio

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National Institute of Technology, Trichy – 620015

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

Degree: B.Tech (E.C.E) Semester: VII

Date: 02.12.2020 Question Set – C Time: 02.30 pm - 04.00


pm

Duration: 2 hours Total Marks: 30

End Semester Examination


ECPC28-Fiber Optic Communication
Answer all the questions
1. a. Consider a multimode fiber that has a core refractive index of 1.380 and a core-cladding index
difference 2.2 %. Find the (a) numerical aperture, (b) the acceptance angle, and (c) the critical
angle. [3]
b. Suppose we have a multimode step index optical fiber that has a core radius of 40 mm, a core
index of 1.40, and an index difference is 0.01. What are the number of modes in the fiber at
wavelengths 870, 1410, and 1560 nm?. [3]

2. a. An optical signal at a specific wavelength has lost 55 percent of its power after traversing 7.0
km of fiber. What is the attenuation in dB/km of this fiber? [2]
b. A continuous 40-km-long optical fiber link has a loss of 0.4 dB/km. (a) What is the minimum
optical power level that must be launched into the fiber to maintain an optical power level of
2.0 mW at the receiving end? (b) What is the required input power if the fiber has a loss of
0.6 dB/km? [4]

3. a. A Febry- Perot laser diode with a 400 µm long cavity uses GaAs as the material in the active
region with uncoated facets. The cavity offers an average loss of 1000 m -1 at the operating
wavelength. Calculate the value of threshold gain assuming reflectivity of 0.29. [2]
b. The end faces of two optical fibers with core refractive indices of 1.495 are perfectly aligned
and have a small gap between them. If this gap is filled with a gel that has a refractive index
of 1.315, find the optical power in decibels reflected at one interface of this joint. If the gap is
very small, what is the power loss in decibels through the joint when no index-matching is
used? Consider appropriate practical assumptions. [4]

4. a. Consider the absorption coefficient of silicon is 0.04 mm –1 at 830 nm, Find the
(i) The quantum efficiency for depletion layer widths of 20, and 50 mm.
(ii) The responsivity for a silicon pin photo diode having a 20-mm thick depletion layer. [3]
b. Consider a quantum-noise-limited analog optical fiber system that uses a pin photodiode with
a responsivity of 0.85 at 1310 nm. Assume the system uses a modulation index of 0.6 and
operates in a 40-MHz bandwidth. If we neglect detector dark current, what is the signal-to-
noise ratio when the incident optical power at the receiver is -15 dBm? [3]

5. a. Consider a tunable DBR laser operating at 1550 nm that has a linewidth of 1.25 GHz. If the
maximum index change is 0.55 percent, how many wavelength channels can this laser
provide if the channel spacing is 10 times the source spectral width? [3]
b. An EDFA produces an output signal of 27 dBm from an input signal of 2 dBm at a
wavelength of 1542 nm. The pump wavelength is 980 nm. (i) Find the amplifier gain. (ii)
What is the minimum pump power required? [3]
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