Tutorial 1

1. Exercise in Page 10 of the notes.

2. Exercise in Page 18 of the notes.
3. You have a single-moded fiber at 850 nm, and a light source with a bandwidth of 1
nm. The dispersion of the fiber is D = 80 ps/nm-km. What is the maximum data rate
that could be transmitted through 100 km of the fiber, neglecting attenuation, based on the
guideline bit rate = 1/(4 pulse spreading)?
4. A 1 meter length of fiber transmits 99.9% of the light entering it. How much light will
remain after 10 km of the fiber?
5. Calculate the cutoff wavelength of a fiber with core radius of 5 microns, =
0.003 and n1 = 1.5.

n1 n2
=
n1