Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s

Sardar Patel Institute of Technology

Bhavan’s Campus, Munshi Nagar, Andheri (West), Mumbai-400058-India
(Autonomous College Affiliated to University of Mumbai)
TE- EXTC Sub- OFC
Ayush Sharma
UID:2019120057
EXPERIMENT NO 6

Aim: To understand Optical Power Budgeting.

Software Matlab.
Used:

Question: Components are chosen for a digital optical fiber link of overall length 7km and
operating at 20Mbits -1 using an RZ code. It is decided that an LED emitting at
0.85μm with graded index fiber to a PIN photodiode is a suitable choice for the
system components, giving no dispersion-equalization penalty. An LED which is
capable of launching an average of 100μW of optical power (including the
connector loss) into a graded index fiber of 50μm core diameter is chosen. The
proposed fiber cable has an attenuation of 2.6 dBkm-1 and requires splicing every
kilometer with a loss of 0.5dB per splice. There is also a connector loss at the
receiver of 1.5dB. The receiver requires mean incident optical power of −41dBm
in order to give the necessary BER of 10−10, and it is predicted that a safety margin
of 6dB will be required. Write down the optical power budget for the system and
hence determine its viability.

Answer:
 Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s
Sardar Patel Institute of Technology
Bhavan’s Campus, Munshi Nagar, Andheri (West), Mumbai-400058-India
(Autonomous College Affiliated to University of Mumbai)
TE- EXTC Sub- OFC
Program: % Mohammed Saud Sayed

clc;
clear;
close all;

overall_length=input('Overall length in km = ');

Transmitter=input('Mean Optical Power transmitted in dBm = ');
Receiver=input('Receiver sensitivity in dBm = ');
Attenuation=input('Cable attenuation in dB/km = ');
Splicing_loss=input('Splicing Loss in dB = ');
Connector_loss=input('Connector Loss in dB = ');
safety_margin=input('Safety Margin in dB = ');
distance=0:1:overall_length;
power_budget = Transmitter - Receiver;
hold on
grid on

% initialising the array for y axis

power = zeros(1,overall_length+1);
power(1) = abs(Receiver);
for i=1:1:overall_length
link_loss = (Attenuation*i)+(Splicing_loss*(i-1));% Fiber loss + Splice loss
margin = power_budget - link_loss;
power(i+1) = margin + abs(Transmitter);% removing the receiver part
end
margin = margin - Connector_loss;
power(overall_length+1) = margin;
fprintf('Power Losses ->\n')
Power=power'; Distance=distance'; T=table(Distance,Power); disp(T);
plot(distance,power,'r-o');
hold off
title('Power as a function of distance');
xlabel('Distance in km');
ylabel('Absolute Optical Power in dBm');
fprintf('Final Power Margin is %f\n',margin);
if safety_margin<=margin
fprintf('System is viable if Safety Margin is %f\n',safety_margin)
else
fprintf('System is not viable if Safety Margin is %f\n',safety_margin)
end
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Sardar Patel Institute of Technology
Bhavan’s Campus, Munshi Nagar, Andheri (West), Mumbai-400058-India
(Autonomous College Affiliated to University of Mumbai)
TE- EXTC Sub- OFC
Outputs:

Figure 1: Inputs according to the question

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Sardar Patel Institute of Technology
Bhavan’s Campus, Munshi Nagar, Andheri (West), Mumbai-400058-India
(Autonomous College Affiliated to University of Mumbai)
TE- EXTC Sub- OFC

Figure 2: Power as a function of distance

Conclusion: 1. The Power Loss Table & The Figures 2 clearly shows that as distance
increases, output power decreases. & The given question is a viable.