LECTURE PLAN

Subject: Optical Communication

COURSE BLOW-UP
EC-701:- Optical Communicaiton

Name of the Faculty: Ms. Taruna Aggarwal

Class: - EC-VII Sem

Lecture
Hours

References

Introduction and Overview of optical

fiber communication
General system of optical fiber
communication system, Advantages of
Optical fiber communications.
Optical fiber waveguide, Ray theory
transmission , wave model
Optical fiber modes and configuration

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R3:1-5

R3:5-10

R3:12-23

R3:26-30

Mode theory for circular waveguides

Step index fibers, graded index fibers

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1

R3:36-40
R3:45-55

Single mode fibers cut off wavelength,

Mode field diameter , effective refractive
index
Fiber material and its fabrication
techniques
Signal distortion in optical fibers ,
attenuation ,absorptions

R3:56-63

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2

R3: chp4
R3:84-91

Scattering and bending losses ,core and

cladding loss
Information capacity determination group
delay, Attenuation measurement
techniques
Types of dispersion-material, waveguide,
polarization mode, intermodal
Pulse broadening , over all fiber
dispersion in multimode and single mode
fiber
Fiber dispersion measurements
techniques, non linear effects

R3:91-99

R3:99102

R3:102121
R3:121129

Unit

Topics

Unit (I)

Unit (II)

Total Lectures: 40

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R3:128135

Optical fiber connectors,: joints, couplers

and isolators
Unit-(III )

Unit-(IV )

Unit-(V )

Optical sources: LEDs, structure material,

quantum efficiency
Power modulation , power bandwidth
product
Laser diodes- basic concepts,
classification
Semiconductor injection laser modes,
threshold conditions
External quantum efficiency ,laser diode
equations
Resonant frequencies, reliability of LED
and ILD
Sources to fiber power launching output
patterns , power coupling
Power launching equilibrium , numerical
aperture laser diode to fiber coupling
Optical detectors-physical principles of
PIN and APD , detector response time
Temp effect on avalanche gain ,
comparison of photo detector
Optical receiver operation-fundamental
receiver operation
Digital signal transmission, error sources,
Receiver configuration ,digital receiver
performance, Probability of error,
quantum limit, analog receivers
Link design, point to point links, power
penalties
Error control, multichannel transmission
techniques,
WDM concepts and component overview
OTDR and optical power meter

Text Books
1. G.Keiser: Optical Fiber Communication MGH
2. Jenkins & White : Fundamentals Of Optics MGH
3. J.M. Senior : Optical Fiber Communication PHI
4. Gagliardi & Karp: Optical Communication Wiley

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Reference Books
1. Bhattacharya, Pallab / Semiconductor Optoelectronics Devices / Pearson Education.
2. Singh, Jasprit / Optoelectronics An Introduction to Materials and Devices/ McGraw-Hill
3. Khare, R.P. / Fiber Optics & Optoelectronics / Oxford University Press
4. Gupta, S.C. / Text Book of Optical Fiber Communication & Its Applications/ PrenticeHall
(India)