CAMBRIDGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, BANGALORE

DEPT. OF ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

LESSON PLAN
FACULTY:
SUBJECT:
T. LEELA
Optical Fiber
SUB CODE:
CHANDRA
Communications
10EC72
KANTH
OBJECTIVE: This course will give students a foundation in current optical fiber technologies. The
objective is to build up a familiarity with the perceptually-salient aspects of the optical fiber,
and how they can be extracted and implemented through optical fiber technologies. the course
aims to deepen each student's familiarity with the practical application of optical fiber
technologies in general, through the study of specific instances.
PREREQUISITE(s): The course assumes a familiarity with signals communications. The material on
pattern recognition assumes a basic familiarity with losses in the optical fiber
technologies. The course give complete communications techniques of the optical fiber
technologies
EXPECTED OUTCOME: A student after undertaking this subject; he/she will be able to better understand
the optical fiber technologies representation and processing by analyzing the
mathematical equations as well as optical fiber models.
IT IS BASIC SUBJECT FOR: communication systems, etc,.
SUBJECT APPLICATIONS: Telecommunications to transmit telephone signals, Internet communication,
and cable television signals. Medical, Defense/Government and Industrial/Commercial
SL.No.
Planned
Actual
Deviation
Remarks
Date
Date
Due to
(Other)
Lesson
Taken
(CL/UPL/OOD
/HOL/Other)
UNIT 1: OVERVIEW OF OPTICAL
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CLASS: VII SEM

FIBER COMMUNICATION:
Introduction

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Historical development, general

system
Advantages, disadvantages
applications of OFC optical fiber
waveguides,
Ray theory: Acceptance angle
Numerical aperture
Cylindrical fiber
Cylindrical fiber
Single mode fiber, Cutoff wave
length, Mode Filed Diameter
Optical Fibers: fiber materials,
photonic crystal
Fiber optic cables
Specialty fibers.
UNIT 2: TRANSMISSION
CHARACTERISTICS OF OPTICAL
FIBERS: Introduction, Attenuation
Absorption,
Scattering losses, bending loss
Dispersion

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Intra model dispersion

Intra model dispersion
Inter model dispersion.
Intra model dispersion
UNIT 4: FIBER COUPLERS AND
CONNECTORS: Introduction, fiber
alignment and joint loss
Contd& single mode fiber joints,
Fiber splices
Fiber splices
Fiber connectors and fiber couplers.
Fiber connectors and fiber couplers.
UNIT 7: WDM CONCEPTS AND
COMPONENTS:
WDM concepts, overview of WDM
operation principles

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WDM standards, Mach-Zehender

interferometer multiplexer
Isolators and circulators, direct thin
film filters
Active optical components, MEMS
technology, variable optical
attenuators
Tunable optical fibers, dynamic gain
equalizers, optical drop multiplexers
Optical amplifiers basic applications
and types
Polarization controllers, chromatic
dispersion compensators, tunable
light sources.
UNIT 8: Optical Amplifiers
and Networks:
optical amplifiers basic applications
and types
semiconductor optical amplifiers
EDFA
OPTICAL NETWORKS: Introduction,
SONET / SDH
Optical Interfaces
SONET/SDH rings & NETWORKS
UNIT 6: ANALOG AND DIGITAL
LINKS:
Introduction, overview of analog
links, CNR
Multichannel transmission
techniques
RF over fiber, key link parameters
Digital links Introduction, pointto

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point links

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UNIT 5: OPTICAL RECEIVER:

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Introduction, Optical Receiver

Operation
receiver sensitivity, quantum limit,
eye diagrams ,coherent detection
burst mode receiver operation
UNIT 3: OPTICAL SOURCES AND
DETECTORS:
Introduction
LEDs
LASER diodes
Photo detectors
Photo detector noise, Response time
Double hetero junction structure

ABBREVIATIONS: CL: Casual Leave; UPL: Unplanned Leave; OOD: On Office Duty; HOL: Unscheduled Holiday

Assignments and Mini Project

Assignment I
Submit By:
19/11/2013
Assignment II
Submit By:
12/12/2013
Assignment III
Submit By:
19/12/2013

Advantages, disadvantages, applications of OFC optical fiber waveguides, Ray theory:

Acceptance angle and Numerical aperture, Cylindrical fiber, Single mode fiber, Cutoff wave
length, Mode Filed Diameter

Literature to be Referred for the Course:

Title & Author

Publication Information
Publisher
Year

Book Type

Code

Text Books

T1

"Optical Fiber Communication, Gerd

Keiser,

Text Books

T2

Optical Fiber Communications", John M.

Senior.

3rd
Impressi
on

Pearson
Education.

2007

Reference
Books

R1

Fiber Optic Communication - Joseph C

Palais.

4th
Edition

Pearson
Education

2004

Comments by Faculty:

Edition

4 th

MGH

2008.

Comments by HOD:

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Faculty in-charge
(T.LEELA CHANDRAKANTH )

HOD ECE

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