Homework 3
Homework 3
2 in the textbook A1
Problem 9: A multimode, optimum near parabolic profile graded index fiber has a material dispersion parameter of 30 ps nm-1 km-1 when used with a good LED source of rms spectral width 25 nm. The fiber has a numerical aperture of 0.4 and a core axis refractive index of 1.48. Estimate the total rms pulse broadening per kilometer within the fiber assuming waveguide dispersion to be negligible. Hence estimate the bandwith-length product for the fiber. Problem 10: A multimode step index fiber has a relative refractive index difference of 1% and a core refractive index of 1.46. The maximum optical bandwidth that may be obtained with a particular source on a 4.5 km link is 3.1 MHz. a) Determine the rms pulse broadening per kilometer resulting from intra-modal dispersion mechanisms. b) Assuming waveguide dispersion may be ignored, estimate the rms spectral width of the source used, if the material dispersion parameter for the fiber at the operating wavelength is 90 ps nm-1 km-1.
Problem 11 Consider a step-index fiber with a core radius of 4 m and a cladding refractive index of 1.45. (a) For what range of values of the core refractive index will the fiber be single-moded for all wavelengths in the 1.21.6m range? (b) What is the value of the core refractive index for which the V parameter is 2.0 at =1.55m? What is the propagation constant of the single mode supported by the fiber for this value of the core refractive index? Promlem 12: Assume that, in the manufacture of a single-mode fiber, the tolerance in the core radius a is 5%and the tolerance in the normalized refractive index difference is 10%, from their respective nominal values. If the nominal value of is specified to be 0.005, what is the largest nominal value that you can specify for a while ensuring that the resulting fiber will be single moded for >1.2m even in the presence of the worst-case (but within the specified tolerances) deviations of a and from their nominal values? Assume that the refractive index of the core is 1.5.