DEPARTMENT OF …ECE

COURSE PLAN: 2019 - 2020

Academic Year 2019-20 Class IV

Subject Name OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS Subject Code EC851PE
Faculty Name SHAIK SOHEL PASHA Total No. of Periods 70
Commencement of Completion of
16th Dec 2019 7th April 2020
Instruction Instruction
Date of I MID Exam 10th to 12th Feb 2019 Date of II MID Exam 8th to 11th April 2020

Prerequisites: Fundamentals of Electromagnetic theory, Principles of Communication Systems.

Course Objectives: The objectives of the course are:

 To realize the significance of optical fiber communications.
 To understand the construction and characteristics of optical fiber cable.
 To develop the knowledge of optical signal sources and power launching.
 To identify and understand the operation of various optical detectors.
 To understand the design of optical systems and WDM.

Date of completion
Reason
Principal/
Week Unit Lecture for
No. No. No. Topic Proposed Actual deviation HOD
Historical development,
L1 The general system 16-12-19
Advantages of Optical Fiber 17-12-19

L2
Communications
Optical Fiber Wave Guides- 18-12-19

L3 Introduction
L4 Ray Theory Transmission 19-12-19
Total Internal Reflection 20-12-19
1 UNIT- L5
1 L6 Acceptance Angle 23-12-19

L7 Numerical Aperture 24-12-19

L8 Skew Rays 27-12-19

L9 Cylindrical Fibers- Modes 28-12-19

V number 30-12-19
2 L10
L11 Mode Coupling 31-12-19

L12 Step Index Fibers 2/1/2020

3 L13 Graded Index Fibers 3/1/2020

 Cut Off Wavelength, Mode 4/1/2020
L14 Field Diameter

L15 Effective Refractive Index 6/1/2020

L16 Fiber Materials Glass, 7/1/2020

L17 Halide, Active Glass 8/1/2020

Chalgenide Glass, Plastic
4 L18
Optical Fibers 9/1/2020

5 L19 Attenuation, Absorption 10/1/2020

Scattering and Bending
Losses, Core and Cladding
L20
Losses 17-01-20
Information Capacity
L21
Determination 18-01-20
Group Delay, Types
L22 of Dispersion 20-01-20
UNIT- L23 Material Dispersion 21-01-20
2
L24 Wave-Guide Dispersion 22-01-20
Polarization Mode
L25 Dispersion 23-01-20
L26 Intermodal Dispersion 24-01-20
L27 Pulse Broadening 25-01-20
Optical Fiber Connectors,
L28 Connector Types 27-01-20
Single Mode Fiber
Connectors, Connector
6 L29 Return Loss 28-01-20
L30 Splicing Techniques 29-01-20
Splicing Single Mode
L31 Fibers 30-01-20
Fiber Alignment and Joint
L32
Loss 31-01-20
L33 Multimode Fiber Joints 1/2/2020
L34 Single Mode Fiber Joints 3/2/2020
7 L35 LEDs, Structures, Materials 4/2/2020
L36 Quantum Efficiency 5/2/2020
UNIT-
3 L37 Power, Modulation, 6/2/2020
L38 Power Bandwidth Product 7/2/2020
Injection Laser Diodes-
L39 Modes 8/2/2020
L40 Threshold Conditions 13-02-20
External, Quantum
L41
8 Efficiency 14-02-20
Laser Diode Rate
L42 Equations, 15-02-20
9 L43 Resonant Frequencies 17-02-20
 L44
Reliability of LED, & ILD.
18-02-20
Output Patterns, Power
L45 Coupling 19-02-20
L46 Power Launching 20-02-20
Equilibrium Numerical
L47 Aperture 22-02-20
Laser Diode to Fiber
10 L48 Coupling 24-02-20
Physical Principles of PIN and
L49 APD 25-02-20
L50 Detector Response Time 26-02-20
Temperature Effect on
L51 Avalanche Gain 27-02-20
Comparison of Photo
11 L52 Detectors 28-02-20
L53 Optical Receiver Operation 2/3/2020
UNIT-
4 Fundamental Receiver
L54 Operation 5/3/2020
12 L55 Digital Signal Transmission 6/3/2020
L56 Error Sources, 9/3/2020
L57 Digital Receiver Performance, 10/3/2020
L58 Probability of Errors 11/3/2020
13 L59 Quantum Limit 12/3/2020
L60 Analog Receivers. 16-03-20
L61 Optical System
14
Design,Considerations 17-03-20
Component Choice,
L62 Multiplexing 18-03-20
Point-to- Point
L63 Links, System Considerations 19-03-20
Link Power Budget with
L64 Examples, 20-03-20
Overall Fiber Dispersion
UNIT- in Multi-Mode and Single
5 Mode Fibers,
L65 23-03-20
Rise Time Budget with
15 L66 Examples 24-03-20
L67 Transmission Distance 26-03-20
L68 Line Coding in Optical Links 27-03-20
WDM, Necessity, Principles,
L69 Types of WDM 30-03-20
Measurement of
Attenuation and
16 L70 Dispersion, Eye Pattern 2/4/2020
TEXT BOOKS:

 Optical Fiber Communications – Gerd Keiser, MC GRAW HILL EDUCATION, 4th Edition, 2008.

 Optical Fiber Communications – John M. Senior, Pearson Education, 3rd Edition, 2009.

REFERENCES:
 Fiber Optic Communications – D.K. Mynbaev , S.C. Gupta and Lowell L. Scheiner,
 Pearson Education, 2005.
 Text Book on Optical Fibre Communication and its Applications – S.C.Gupta, PHI,
 2005.
 Fiber Optic Communication Systems – Govind P. Agarwal , John Wiley, 3rd Ediition,
 2004.
 Introduction to Fiber Optics by Donald J.Sterling Jr. – Cengage learning, 2004.

COURSE OUTCOMES: At the end of the course, the student will be able to:

 Understand and analyze the constructional parameters of optical fibres.

 Be able to design an optical system.
 Estimate the losses due to attenuation, absorption, scattering and bending.
 Compare various optical detectors and choose suitable one for different applications.

Signature of the Faculty Signature of the HOD

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