Optical Fiber Communication - Electronic

Engineering (MCQ) questions & answers

1) Which among the following misalignments give/gives rise to the occurrence
of splice loss?

a. Longitudinal separation between the end-faces of fiber

b. Angular tilt between fiber ends
c. Transverse offset between fiber ends
d. All of the above

2) Which among the following stages is/are adopted in Splice Loss

Experiment?

a. Translational
b. Rotational
c. Both a and b
d. None of the above

3) In chromatic dispersion, which parameter for the modulation of the received

signal is measured with the help of a vector voltmeter?

a. Amplitude
b. Frequency
c. Phase
d. Period

4) For measuring the shape of input pulse in time-domain intermodal

dispersion method, the test fiber is replaced by another fiber whose length is
less than ___ of the test fiber.

a. 1%
b. 5%
c. 10%
d. 20%

5) Why is an electrical isolation required between several portions of an

electronic circuit?
a. Provision of high voltage protection
b. Reduction in noise level
c. Both a & b
d. None of the above

6) Basically, solitons are pulses which propagates through the fiber without
showing any variation in ______

a. Amplitude
b. Velocity
c. Shape
d. All of the above

7) Which band/s specify/ies the operation range of Erbium doped fiber

amplifier (EDFA)?

a. By O band
b. By C band
c. By S band
d. All of the above

8) In an optical network, increase in the number of lasers ________the bit rate.

a. Increases
b. Stabilizes
c. Decreases
d. None of the above

9) Which among the following parameters is/are decided by the front-end of a

receiver?

a. Sensitivity
b. Bandwidth
c. Both a and b
d. None of the above

10) Which nature of charge carriers give rise to the current fluctuations thereby
resulting into the generation of shot noise?

a. Continuous
b. Discrete
c. Sampled
d. All of the above

11) On which factor/s do/does the response time of photodiode depend/s?

a. Diffusion time of photo carriers outside the depletion region

b. Diffusion time of photo carriers within the depletion region

c. RC time constant

d. All of the above

12) In an eye-diagram, digital signals with very bad interference resembles the
shape of _____

a. circle

b. rectangle

c. triangle

d. straight line

13) When an optical signal is incident on a photo-detector, which noise

originate/s due to statistical nature of production and collection of
photoelectrons?

a. Dark Current Noise

b. Quantum Noise

c. Surface Leakage Current noise

d. All of the above

14) Which photodiodes are crucially applicable to overcome the bandwidth-

quantum efficiency trade-off along with its resemblence to the pyramid
structure?
a. Mushroom Waveguide Photodiode

b. Traveling Wave Photodiode

c. Resonant Cavity Photodiode

d. All of the above

15) According to frequency response of photo-detector, the modulation

frequency at which the output current decreases to ________of peak value.

a. one-third

b. one-fourth

c. half

d. one-tenth

16) The spectral response of an ideal photodetector depicts its efficiency as a

function of _________

a. amplitude

b. frequency

c. period

d. wavelength

17) In the dynamic response of Injection Laser Diode (ILD), the delay which is
followed by ____ frequency damped oscillations give rise to the generation of
relaxation oscillations.

a. Low

b. Medium

c. High
d. All of the above

18) Which type of injection laser involves the use of geometry for fabrication of
the multimode injection laser with a single or small number of lateral modes?

a. Gain guided laser

b. Index guided laser

c. Quantum well laser

d. Quantum dot laser

19) Which modes are acknowledged due to their association with

electromagnetic field and beam profile in the direction perpendicular to the
plane of pn junction?

a. Longitudinal Modes

b. Transverse Modes

c. Lateral Modes

d. All of the above

20) Which among the following characteristics of Laser light specifies the
precise movement of all individual light waves together through time and
space?

a. Monochromatic

b. Directional

c. Coherent

d. Brightness

21) Which optical devices are adopted or applicable for routing signals from
one waveguide to another?
a. Optical Combiner

b. Optical Splitter

c. Optical Coupler

d. None of the above

22) Which type of fiber-optic coupler causes the distribution of an optical

power from more than two input ports among the several output ports?

a. Star Coupler

b. Tree Coupler

c. X Coupler

d. All of the above

23) What is/ are the consequence/s of Self Phase Modulation in non-linear
optics?

a. Modification in pulse spectrum

b. Limited transmission rate

c. Dispersion effect

d. All of the above

24) Which reason/s is/are responsible for the occurrence of non-linear Cross
Phase Modulation (XPM)?

a. Difference in transmission phase of peak pulse & leading or trailing edges of

pulse

b. Third-order optical non-linearity

c. Intensity dependence of refractive index

d. All of the above

25) In cables, water is prevented from filling the spaces with

__________resistant compounds.

a. moisture

b. pressure

c. temperature

d. stress

26) Why are plastic clad silica fiber optic cables not used widely?

a. Difficulty in connector application due to excessive plasticity in cladding

b. Difficulty in bonding

c. Insolubility in organic solvents

d. All of the above

27) Which among the following represents the lateral shift of a light beam on
reflection at a dielectric interface?

a. Doppler's Shift

b. Goos-Haenchen's Shift

c. Frequency Shift

d. Phase Shift

28) The order of mode is equal to the number of field____ across the guide.

a. Zeros

b. Poles
c. Ones

d. All of the above

29) In the structure of fiber optic cable, the refractive index of core is always
_______the refractive index of cladding.

a. Less than

b. Equal to

c. Greater than

d. None of the above

30) If a noisy channel has a bandwidth of 4 MHz with signal to noise ratio of
about 1, what would be the maximum capacity of the channel?

a. 2 Mb/sec

b. 4 Mb/sec

c. 6 Mb/sec

d. 8 Mb/sec

31) For neglecting the pulse dispersion in the digital systems, the rms width of
fiber impulse response must be _________one-quarter of the pulse spacing.

a. Less than
b. Equal to
c. Greater than
d. None of the above

32) Consider the assertions/ characteristics given below. Which type of

attenuation measurement technique exhibits these characteristics?

1. Necessity of accessing both ends of fiber.

2. Measurements corresponding to specific wavelengths.
3. Requirement of spectral response over a range of wavelengths.

a. Cutback Technique
b. Insertion Loss Technique
c. Use of OTDR Technique
d. None of the above

33) Which among the following is/are responsible for generating attenuation of
an optical power in fiber?

a. Absorption
b. Scattering
c. Waveguide effect
d. All of the above

34) In circulator, an optical path of signal follows _______

a. An open loop
b. A closed loop
c. Both a and b
d. None of the above

35) Which among the following controls the length of Fabry-Perot

interferometer so that it can act as a tunable optical filter?

a. Transducer
b. Tachometer
c. Multimeter
d. Phase-meter

36) Which category/ies of wavelength division multiplexer comprise/s two 3dB

couplers where the splitting of an incident beam takes place into two fiber
paths, followed by the recombination with second 3-dB coupler?

a. Interference filter based devices

b. Angular dispersion based devices
c. Mach-Zehnder Interferometers
d. All of the above

37) Which among the following are the disadvantages of an optical feedback
transimpedance receiver?

A. Increase in receiver input capacitance

B. Increase in dark current
C. Decrease in receiver input capacitance
D. Decrease in dark current

a. A & B
b. C & D
c. A & D
d. B & C

38) In high impedance preamplifier, how are the noise sources kept to
minimum level?

a. By reducing dark current with proper selection of photodiode

b. By reducing thermal noise of biasing resistor
c. By using high impedance amplifier
d. All of the above

39) Which type of preamplifier plays a crucial role in reducing the effect of
thermal noise?

a. Low Impedance Pre-amplifier

b. High Impedance Preamplifier
c. Transimpedance Preamplifier
d. None of the above

40) In pyroelectric photodetectors, the consequent increase in dielectric

constant due to temperature variation by the photon absorption, is generally
measured as change in _______

a. resistance
b. inductance
c. admittance
d. capacitance