Topic: Fiber Optic Communications

1. With light frequencies, wavelength is often stated in micron,

which is equal to ___ or nanometer which is equal to ___. 

> 10-9 meter, 10-6 meter  (Correct Answer)

2. A micron is equal to :

> 10-6 m  (Correct Answer)

3. Type of fiber that has the highest modal dispersion: 

> step-index-multimode  (Your Correct Answer)

4. Referred to as light source of a fiber optic which supplies a

power level of 5 to 7 milliwatts and having a narrow spectrum
of emission. 

> Injection Laser Diode  (Correct Answer)

5. Which of the following color of light rays has the shortest

wavelenght? 

> violet  (Your Correct Answer)

6. The longer wavelenghts with their faster velocities arrive at

the receiver before the shorter wavelenghts, thereby
stretching the pulse. What type of dispersion is this? 

> material dispersion

> chromatic dispersion
> wavelenght dispersion  
> all of the above  (Correct Answer)

7. When a beam of light travels through media of two different

densities, if the angle of incidence is greater than the critical
angle ___ occurs. 
> reflection  (Your Correct Answer)

8. A type of LASER made up of semiconductor p-n junction and

are commonly called Injection Laser Diode (ILD). 

> Semiconductor LASER  (Your Correct Answer)

9. Uses an electric arc to weld two glass fiber together. 

> fusion splice  (Your Correct Answer)

10. Calculate the energy of the photon of infrared light energy

at 1.55 microns:

> 1.28 x 10-19 J  (Correct Answer)

11. Which is not true about dispersion? 

> It is inversely proportional to the fourth power of the

wavelenght
> It decreases rapidly at loger wavelengths  
> It represents the theoretical lower limits of attenuation
> It scatters the light in forward directions only  (Correct
Answer)

12. This is the source of dispersion due to waveguide effects

that is negligible in multimode fibers, but not in single mode
fibers specially those who operates in the vicinity of 1.27
micrometers. 

C.waveguide dispersion  (Correct Answer)

13. Rays that pass through the fiber axis each time they are
reflected are called.

> meridional rays  (Correct Answer)

14. The different angles of entry of light into an optical fiber
when the diameter of the core is many times the wavelenght
of the light transmitted known as ___. 

> mode  (Your Correct Answer)

15. A device that reduces the intensity of light in fiber optics

communications systems. 

> Optical Attenuator  (Your Correct Answer)

16. Luminous efficiency is least for a: 

> Low-wattage Light bulb  (Your Correct Answer)

17. Contains N number of ports in which each port can serve

as an input or an output. Light injected into any port will
appear at all other ports. 

> refractive star coupler  (Your Correct Answer)

18. The minimum angle of incidence at which light ray may

strike the interface of two media is called: 

> critical angle  (Your Correct Answer)

19. Proposed the use of clad glass fiber as a dielectric

waveguide: 

> Bockham and Kao  (Your Correct Answer)

20. An absorption loss caused by valence electrons in the silica

material from which fibers are manufactured. 

> Ultraviolet absorption  (Correct Answer)

21. The wavelength of light has no role in ___. 

> Polarization  (Your Correct Answer)

22. Any small element of space in the path of a wave may be
considered as a source of secondary wavelength. 

> Huygen's Principle  (Correct Answer)

23. The smaller the F-rating, the ___ light that lens can take
in. 

> more  (Correct Answer)

24. One of the following stands for SONET acronym in

telecom: 

> Synchronous Optical Network  (Your Correct Answer)

25. It has a central core with uniform refractive index: 

> step-index fiber  (Your Correct Answer)

26. Quantity that does not change when a beam of light enters
one medium to another. 

> frequency  (Your Correct Answer)

27. A LASER type which uses a mixture of helium and neon

enclosed in a glass tube. 

> Gas LASER  (Your Correct Answer)

28. Water has a refractive index of ___. 

> 1.33  (Your Correct Answer)

29. Analogous to power dissipation in copper cables: 

> absorption loss  (Correct Answer)

30. A non-coherent light source for optical communications
system. 

> LED  (Your Correct Answer)

31. What law does a light travelling in air optical fiber follow? 

> Snell's  (Correct Answer)

32. Loss due to the diffraction of light when it strikes on the

irregularities formed during the manufacturing process of the
fiber optics. 

> Rayleigh Scattering Loss  (Your Correct Answer)

33. One important feature of attenuation in an optical fiber is

that:

> It is constant at all modulation frequencies within the

bandwidth  (Your Correct Answer)

34. The region of the optical fiber which is used to avoid the
light from escaping the fiber is the: 

> cladding  (Your Correct Answer)

35. What is the device used in fiber optic communication which

consist of a receiver/transmitter use to clean up and amplify
digital data moving in one direction and another in opposite
direction? 

> Optic regenerators  (Your Correct Answer)

36. The energy gap for silicon is: 

> 1.12 eV  (Correct Answer)

37. A mathematical and physical concept describing the
propagation of electromagnetic waves through media: 

> mode  (Correct Answer)

38. Circuit used to amplify the optical signal in fiber

communications link. 

B.optical repeater  (Your Correct Answer)

39. Fiber Optic cables operate near ___ frequencies.

> 800 THz  (Your Correct Answer)

40. Referred to as a limit in reducing further the loss of signal

passing through a fiber optic caused by scattering. 

> Rayleigh Effect  (Your Correct Answer)

41. It occurs because the core may not be perfectly centered

in the cladding: 

> concentricity loss  (Correct Answer)

42. The most common device used as a light detector in fiber

optic communications system. 

> PIN diodes  (Correct Answer)

43. The numerical aperture of the fiber is important because: 

> It gives indication of how the fiber accepts and propagates

light  (Correct Answer)

44. One of the following is related to the application of solid

materials as a medium where light travels. 

> fiber-optics  (Your Correct Answer)

45. One of the following is not common among the type of
fiber optics used in electronic communications. 

> semi-graded multimode  (Your Correct Answer)

46. Which is not a type of dispersion? 

> modal dispersion

> material dispersion
> waveguide dispersion  
> none of the above  (Correct Answer)

47. One (1) angtrom (A) is often used to express wavelenght

which is equivalent to: 

> 10-10 meter  (Your Correct Answer)

48. The branch of electronics that deals with light. 

> optoelectronics  (Correct Answer)

49. The minimum optical power a light detector can recieve

and still produce a usable output signal. 

> light sensitivity  (Correct Answer)

50. Used to remove those modes that are near the cut-off
point and may contribute to leakage losses. 

> mode stripping  (Correct Answer)