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This document contains 20 questions related to fiber optic communication systems. The questions cover topics such as determining normalized frequency and number of modes in step-index fibers, calculating numerical aperture, critical angle, acceptance angle, cutoff wavelength, photon energy, dispersion, attenuation, receiver sensitivity, quantum efficiency, shot noise, thermal noise, bit error rate, and fiber attenuation using a cut-back method. The questions require calculating and determining various fiber optic and optical communication system parameters using provided refractive index, wavelength, power, and other values.

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This document contains 20 questions related to fiber optic communication systems. The questions cover topics such as determining normalized frequency and number of modes in step-index fibers, calculating numerical aperture, critical angle, acceptance angle, cutoff wavelength, photon energy, dispersion, attenuation, receiver sensitivity, quantum efficiency, shot noise, thermal noise, bit error rate, and fiber attenuation using a cut-back method. The questions require calculating and determining various fiber optic and optical communication system parameters using provided refractive index, wavelength, power, and other values.

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LWC Assignment

1. Determine the normalized frequency at 820 nm for a step index fiber having a
25m radius. The refractive indexes of the cladding and the core are 1.45 and 1.47
respectively. How many modes propagate in this fiber at 820 nm?
2. The relative refractive index difference for an optical fiber is 1%. Determine the
critical angle at the core cladding interface if the core refractive index is 1.46.
3. A step index fiber has normalized frequency V=26.6 at a 1300nm wavelength. If the
core radius is 25m. find the numerical aperture.
4. Calculate the cutoff wavelength of a single mode fiber with core radius of 4m and
= 0.003
5. For a fiber with core refractive index of 1.54 and fractional refractive index
difference of 0.001, calculate its numerical aperture.
6. What is the energy of a single photon of the light whose = 1550 nm, in eV?
Assume that there is a glass rod of refractive index 1.5, surrounded by air. Find the
critical incident angle.
7. The refractive indexes of the core and cladding of a silica fiber are 1.48 and 1.46
respectively. Find the acceptance angle for the fiber.
8. Determine the normalized frequency at 820 nm for a step index fiber having a
25m radius. The refractive indexes of the cladding and the core are 1.45 and
1.47 respectively. How many modes propagate in this fiber at 820 nm?
9. A Si fiber with silica core refractive index of 1.458, v = 75 and NA = 0.3 is to be
operated at 820nm. What should be its core size and cladding refractive index?
Calculate the total number of modes entering this fiber.
10.
Calculate NA of silica fiber with its core refractive index (n1) of 1.48 and
cladding refractive index of 1.46. What should be the new value of n1 in order
to change the NA to 0.23.
11.
A silica optical fiber with a core diameter large enough to be considered
by ray theory analysis has a core refractive index of 1.47. Determine (a) The
critical angle at the core-cladding interface (b) the NA for the fiber (c) the
acceptance angle in air for the fiber.
12.
Determine the fraction of average optical power residing in the cladding of
a step index fiber
having core radius of 25m. The fiber operates at 1300nm and has a numerical
aperture of
0.22.
13. A fiber has core radius of 25mm, core refractive index of 1.48 and relative
refractive index
difference () is 0.01.If the operating wavelength is 0.84mm, find the value
of normalized
frequency and the number of guided modes. Determine the number of
guided modes if is
reduced to 0.003.
14.
A SI fiber with silica core refractive index of 1.48,V=75 and NA=0.3 is to
be operated at 820nm.What should be its core size and cladding refractive
index? Calculate the total number of modes entering this fiber.
15.
An LED operating at 850 nm has a spectral width of 45 nm. What is the
pulse spreading in

ns/km due to material dispersion? What is the pulse spreading when a laser
diode having a 2
nm spectral width is used? The material dispersion is 90 ps/nm km.
16.
Calculate the maximum transmission distance for a fiber link with an
attenuation of 0.2 dB/Km if the power launched in 1mW and the receiver
sensitivity is 50 V. Calculate the attenuation for another link with same
parameters and distance of 26Kms.
17.
Calculate the external differential quantum efficiency of a laser diode
operating at 1.33 m. The slope of the straight line portion of the curve for the
emitted optical power P versus drive current I is given by 15 mW/mA.
18.
A silicon PIN photodiode incorporated into an optical receiver has a
quantum efficiency of
60% when operating at a wavelength of 0.9 m. The dark current in the device
is 3 nA and
the load resistance is 4 K. The incident optical power is 200 nW and the post
detection
bandwidth of the receiver is 5MHz. Calculate the root mean square shot noise
and thermal
noise currents generated.
19.
A digital fiber optic link operating at 1310 nm requires a maximum BER of
10-8. Calculate the required average photons per pulse.
20.
The photo detector output in a cutback-attenuation set up is 3,3V at the
far end of the fiber. After cutting the fiber at the near end, 5m from the far end,
photo detector output read was 3.92V. What is the attenuation of the fiber in
dB/Km.

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