HOMEWORK 3

Problem 1:

Problem 3.2 in the textbook A1

Problem 2:

Problem 3.3 in the textbook A1

Problem 3:

Problem 3.4 in the textbook A1

Problem 4:

Problem 3.13 in the textbook A1

Problem 5:

Problem 3.16 in the textbook A1

Problem 6:

Problem 3.17 in the textbook A1

Problem 7:

Problem 3.25 in the textbook A1

Problem 8:

Problem 3.28 in the textbook A1

Problem 9:

A multimode, optimum near parabolic profile graded index fiber has a material
dispersion parameter of 30 ps nm-1 km-1 when used with a good LED source of rms spectral
width 25 nm. The fiber has a numerical aperture of 0.4 and a core axis refractive index of
1.48. Estimate the total rms pulse broadening per kilometer within the fiber assuming
waveguide dispersion to be negligible. Hence estimate the bandwith-length product for the
fiber.

Problem 10:

A multimode step index fiber has a relative refractive index difference of 1% and a
core refractive index of 1.46. The maximum optical bandwidth that may be obtained with a
particular source on a 4.5 km link is 3.1 MHz.

a) Determine the rms pulse broadening per kilometer resulting from intra-modal
dispersion mechanisms.
b) Assuming waveguide dispersion may be ignored, estimate the rms spectral width of
the source used, if the material dispersion parameter for the fiber at the operating
wavelength is 90 ps nm-1 km-1.
Problem 11

Consider a step-index fiber with a core radius of 4 μm and a cladding refractive index of
1.45.

(a) For what range of values of the core refractive index will the fiber be single-moded
for all wavelengths in the 1.2–1.6μm range?
(b) What is the value of the core refractive index for which the V parameter is 2.0 at
λ=1.55μm? What is the propagation constant of the single mode supported by the
fiber for this value of the core refractive index?

Promlem 12:

Assume that, in the manufacture of a single-mode fiber, the tolerance in the core radius a is
±5%and the tolerance in the normalized refractive index difference  is ±10%, from their
respective nominal values. If the nominal value of  is specified to be 0.005, what is the
largest nominal value that you can specify for a while ensuring that the resulting fiber will
be single moded for λ>1.2μm even in the presence of the worst-case (but within the
specified tolerances) deviations of a and  from their nominal values? Assume that the
refractive index of the core is 1.5.

Promlem 13:

(3.30) Calculate the waveguide dispersion at 1320 nm in unit of [ps / (nm.km)] for a single-
mode fiber with core and cladding diameters of 9 mm and 125 mm, respectively. Let the
core index nco=1.48 and let index difference  = 0,22 percent