Department of Electronics and

Telecommunication Engineering
Exp. No. 10
Semester B.E. Semester VII – Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
Subject Optical Communication
Subject Professor
Dr. Dhananjay Patel
In-charge
Assisting Teachers Dr. Dhananjay Patel

Student Name Prasad Ganesh Rane

Roll Number 17104A0037

Experiment
10
Number
Experiment
To observe LED Modulation Response for different the data rate.
Title
Resources /
Hardware: Software: Optisystem Software
Apparatus
Laptop / Desktop
Required
Description • The frequency response of an LED is determined by the carrier dynamics (and
of the therefore is limited by the carrier lifetime Tn) and the parasitic capacitance of the LED
experiment (described by the RC constant TRC.
• If a small, constant forward bias is applied, the influence of the parasitic capacitance
of the LED can be neglected. The LED 3-dB modulation optical bandwidth is defined
as the modulation frequency at the LED power transfer function is reduced by 3 dB
[1]. The LED 3-dB modulation optical bandwidth could be expressed as:
ƒ3dB = √3 / 2π / (Tn + TRCn).
• The default values of the carrier lifetime Tn and the RC constant TRC, are 1 ns and
1 ns, respectively. Therefore, the ƒ3dB is approximately 140 MHz.
• Discussion of the numerical parameters: for example, bit rate is 300 Mb/s and
sequence length 128 bits, therefore, the time window is about 430 ns. Samples per bit
are 256, therefore, the sample rate is 76 GHz. The default resolution therefore is
about 2 MHz.
• Let us first keep the carrier lifetime Tn and the RC constant TRC, which means ƒ3dB
is about 140 MHz, and analyze the closure of the eye diagram as a measure for the
performance of the system.
• Clearly the performance of the digital system is considerably worsened by increasing
the bit rate above the LED 3-dB modulation optical bandwidth.
• The influence of the modulation response of the LED can be studied also by keeping
the bit rate, for example 300 Mb/s, and reducing the carrier lifetime Tn and the RC
constant TRC, therefore increasing ƒ3dB . Let us assume Tn = TRC = 0.5ns,
therefore ƒ3dB will be about 280MHz.
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Simulation
setup

Parameters Setting:
Reference Wavelength: 1300 nm
Bit Rate: 100 Mbps to 500 Mbps
Observations
and readings
Bit Rate Q Factor Minimum BER Eye Height
100 Mbps 20.001 2.63972e-089 0.329505
200 Mbps 5.94516 1.35841e-009 0.0997313
300 Mbps 3.73458 9.40413e-005 0.041277
400 Mbps 2.61703 0.0443488 -0.0394748
500 Mbps 2.09581 0.0179833 -0.0817827

Spectrums LED Spectrum

and graphs
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Bit Rate: 100 Mbps

Bit Rate: 200 Mbps

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Bit Rate: 300 Mbps

Bit Rate: 400 Mbps

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Bit Rate: 500 Mbps

Inferences • From above experiment we can say that Quality Factor of signal decreases as bit rate
increases
• Minimum BER of signal increases as bit rate increases
• Eye height start decreases for increase in bit rate
• Overall Signal Quality also deteriorate
Conclusion From the above-performed experiment, we can conclude that the data rate of LED affects
the signal quality and LED response to become poor as the data rate increases.