Name: Sid d harth Maratha

Reg. No. : 20BAI10257

Objective-

To find the numerical aperture of a given optic fibre and hence to find
its acceptance angle.

PROCEDURE
• Drag and drop each apparatus in to the optical table as shown in the figure below.

Fig (4)
• Then Click “Start” button.
• Switch On (now you can see a spot in the middle of the detector)
• After that select the Fiber and Laser for performing the experiment from the control options.

To perform the experiment

• Set the detector distance Z (say 4mm). We referred the distance as “d” in our calculation.
• Vary the detector distance X by an order of 0.5mm, using the screw gauge (use up and down
arrow on the screw gauge to rotate it).
• Measure the detector reading from output unit and tabulate it.
• Plot the graph between X in x-axis and output reading in y-axis. See figure 5.
• Find the radius of the spot r, which is corresponding to Imax/2.71 (See the figure 5).
 Fig (5)

Observation column

Fibre Laser H.S.R. P.S.R Detector Detector Current (i) Radius Sin(θ)
Distance (Z) Distance (X) (r=i/e) Sin(θ)=
And /(r^2+d^2) ^1/2
(e=2.71)
(a)Glass (1) Red 2.55 0.09 5.1 5 0.135 0.049 0.00960784
fibre
(2) 2.25 0.10 4.5 4.5 0.140 0.051 0.01133333
Green
(3) Blue 1.5 0.17 3 4.5 0.210 0.077 0.02486116

(b)Plastic (1) Red 2.00 0.14 4 4.5 0.160 0.059 0.0147500

fibre
(2) 2.50 0.14 5 4.5 0.135 0.049 0.00979960
Green
(3) Blue 2.00 0.04 4 5 0.165 0.060 0.01499850
Calculations
Distance between the fiber and the detector, d = 0.005m
Radius of the spot, r =0.00391m

Numerical Aperture of the optic fiber, sin(θ) = = 0.620

Acceptance angle, θ= = 38.31degree

Result

Numerical aperture of the optic fiber is = 0.620

Angle of acceptance = 38.31degrees