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What is Optical Fiber ?

• Thin Filament fiber material Which
conducts Light

Working on Total
Internal Reflection
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Advantages of OFC
Low Loss
Wide Bandwidth
Light Weight
Higher Security
Greater Safety
Electro Magnetic Immunity
Less Size
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Classification of OFC

• Mode
– Single Mode
– Multi Mode

• Refractive Index
– Step Index
– graded Index
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Classification of OFC

•Multi mode Step Index- Step Index

•Multi mode Graded Index- Graded Index

•Single mode Step Index- Single Mode

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Numerical Aperture
Light Gathering Ability
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Numerical Aperture

Typical Numerical Apertures and Acceptance

Angles
Construction n1 n2 NA 
0
All glass 1.48 1.46 0.24 13.9
0
PCS 1.46 1.40 0.41 24.2
0
All plastic 1.49 1.41 0.48 29.0
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Dispersion

• Modal or Inter Modal Dispersion

• Material Dispersion

• Wave length Dispersion

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Attenuation

Loss of Power
• Attenuation Varies with wavelength

Single Mode loss = 2.0 to 2.5 dB/Km at 850 nm

Single Mode loss = 0.4 to 0.5 dB/Km at 1300 nm

Single Mode loss = 0.25 to 0.30 dB/Km at 1550 nm

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Sources of Losses

Absorption

Scattering

Geometric Effects