VIT University, Vellore Campus PHY 1701 (Engineering Physics) Lab Manual and Record

Date:02-03-2021 Reg. No.20BIT0054

Optical Fiber Characterization

Apparatus available:

Diode laser,
Optical fiber,
Laser – Fiber coupler,
Optical rail,
Pinhole photo detector,
Power supply for laser and Detector output measurement unit.

SLO:
To determine numerical aperture of a given multimode optical fiber.

Theory:

A multi-mode optical fiber will only propagate light that enters the fiber within a
certain cone, known as the acceptance cone of the fiber. The half-angle of this cone is called
the acceptance angle, θa.

Acceptance angle θa = tan-1 (R/Z)

where, D is the diameter of far field intensity at 5% intensity level of the maximum attainable
intensity and Z is the distance between the detector and the fiber output end.

NA = Sin θa
 VIT University, Vellore Campus PHY 1701 (Engineering Physics) Lab Manual and Record
Date:02-03-2021 Reg. No.20BIT0054

Z Micrometer reading (mm) Detector o/p current D

1 mm 14.1 0.5 1.7
1 mm 13.9 2.0 1.7
1 mm 13.7 10.2 1.7
1 mm 14.5 39.9 1.7
1 mm 14.3 66.0 1.7
1 mm 13.1 84.1 1.7
1 mm 12.9 84.6 1.7
12.7 62.6 1.7
1 mm
12.5 34.8 1.7
1 mm
12.3 14.3 1.7
1 mm 12.1 4.0 1.7
1 mm 11.9 0.8 1.7
1 mm 11.7 0.1 1.7
1 mm 11.5 0.0 1.7

Result :-

Numerical Aperture (NA) of the given multimode optical fiber 0.65