Department of Electronics and

Telecommunication Engineering
Exp. No. 5
Semester B.E. Semester VII – Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
Subject Optical Communication
Subject Professor
Dr. Dhananjay Patel
In-charge
Assisting Teachers Dr. Dhananjay Patel

Student Name Prasad Ganesh Rane

Roll Number 17104A0037

Experiment
05
Number
Experiment
To measure Stimulated Brillouin Scattering and Rayleigh Scattering
Title
Resources /
Hardware: Software: Optisystem Software
Apparatus
Laptop / Desktop
Required
Description Stimulated Brillouin Scattering:
of the Brillouin scattering is an effect caused by the χ(3) nonlinearity of a medium, specifically by
experiment
that part of the nonlinearity which is related to acoustic phonons [1]. An incident photon
can be converted into a scattered photon of slightly lower energy, usually propagating in
the backward direction, and a phonon. The coupling of optical fields and acoustic waves
occurs via electrostriction. The effect can occur spontaneously even at low optical powers,
then reflecting the thermally generated phonon field. For higher optical powers, there can
be a stimulated effect, where the optical fields substantially contribute to the phonon
population. Above a certain threshold power of a light beam in a medium, stimulated
Brillouin scattering can reflect most of the power of an incident beam.

Rayleigh Scattering:
Rayleigh scattering is a common scattering optical phenomenon, named after the British
physicist Lord Rayleigh. It is linear scattering of light at scattering centers which are much
smaller than the wavelength of the light. Under such circumstances, the scattering occurs
with intensities which are proportional to the in-coming optical intensity, to the fourth
power of the inverse wavelength, and to 1 + cos2 θ, where θ is the scattering angle.
Forward and backward scattering (θ = 0 and θ = π, respectively) are equally strong.
Scattering at larger centers can be described by Mie scattering theory (named after Gustav
Mie). Here, the characteristics are different; for example, the scattering amplitudes are
stronger for forward scattering, and the wavelength dependence is different.
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Simulation
setup

Parameters Setting:
CW laser :
• Power : sweep = (-15, -13, -11, -9, -7, -5, -3, -1, 0, 1, 3, 5, 7)
• Frequency : 193.1 THz
Bi-Directional Optical Fibre :
• Length : (25, 50, 75)
Observation
s and
readings
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Spectrums
and graphs
RBS and SBS
0
-15 -10 -5 0 5
-5

-10

-15

-20

-25

-30

-35

-40

-45

-50
25KM_RBS 50KM_RBS 75KM_RBS
25KM_RBS+SBS 50KM_RBS+SBS 75KM_RBS+SBS

Inferences As we increase the laser power, Rayleigh scattering linearly increases. In the presence of
both Rayleigh and Brillouin Scattering keeps on increasing linearly initially and the increase
is nonlinear after a particular threshold is reached.

Conclusion RBS is a linear scattering process; Brillouin scattering also shows linear scattering until
threshold power is reached.