Bhartiya vidya Bhavan’s

Sardar Patel Institute of Technology

Department of Electronics and Telecommunication

EXPERIMENT 4

Name UID Date of Date of Total Marks

Experiment Submission
Vyoum Khare 2020200034 14/02/23 21/02/23 10

Aim: Modal Analysis of Optical Fibre Communication System

Software : The free fibre optics software RP Fibre Calculator: calculating fibre mode properties and light
propagation in fibres with a powerful mode solver (rp-photonics.com)

Prelab:
Question Marks (2)
1) What are LP modes ? 0.5
2) What is Dominant Mode? 0.5
3) What is the dominant mode for Optical fibre (Hint: HEmn/EHmn/LP12/LP11) 0.5
4) What is the diameter range of step index fibre? 0.5
5) Which is denser core or cladding?
Procedure and Observation Table:

Step 1: Set the parameters as shown in the image given below :

Step 2: Comparative analysis on impact of change in wavelength on the propagation of light in

fibre.( 2marks)

Section Paramete Wavelength: 1000nm Wavelength: Comments Mark

r 1550nm s
Guided No. of 33 4 For higher
modes modes frequencies there
are more modes
possible.
Guided Image of It is clear that for 0.5
modes first 4 any frequency of
light LP0,1 is
modes Dominant mode
with capability
of transmitting
maximum power.
Guided Power Yes, we can see 0.5
modes in % of that in both cases
of wavelength
first four Dominant mode
modes is carrying
maximum power.
The amount of
power in same
mode decreases
as wavelength
increases.
Launching a Waist 10 10 -
beam radius of
incident
beam
Launching a Dominant 38.59% 45.58% With higher 0.5
beam mode wavelength the
number of
coupled
modes carrying
power power
decreases.
LP0,1 carries
most of power
in both cases.
Propagation Maximum 1mm 2mm As Frequency 0.5
distance decreases the
range of
that can be transporting data
travelled increases and
without vice-versa.
dispersion
?
 Propagation Far field The graph
profile makes clear
that the first
case's far field
profile is
greater. i.e.,
greater
dispersion.

Step 3: Change the radius to 10 um and do the same analysis and comment.( 2 marks)

Section Paramete Wavelength: 1000nm Wavelength: Comments Mark

r 1550nm s
Guided No. of 10 14 For higher
modes modes wavelength
there are
more modes
possible.
Guided Image of It is clear that 0.5
modes first 4 for any
frequency of
modes light LP0,1 is
Dominant
mode with
capability of
transmitting
maximum
power.

Guided Power Yes, we can see 0.5

modes in % of that in both
cases of
first four wavelength
modes Dominant mode
is carrying
maximum
power. The
 amount of
power in same
mode decreases
as wavelength
increases.
Launching a Waist 10 10 -
beam radius of
incident
beam
Launching a Dominant 83.60% 86.56% With higher 0.5
beam mode wavelength the
number of
coupled modes carrying
power power
decreases. LP0,1
carries most of
power in both
cases.
Propagation Maximum 1mm 1mm As Frequency 0.5
distance decreases the
range of
that can be transporting
travelled data increases
without and vice-versa.
dispersion
?
Propagation Far field The graph
profile makes clear that
the second
case's far field
profile is
greater. i.e.,
greater
dispersion.

Conclusion: ( 1 mark)
1) Simulated modal analysis of Optical Fibre for different wavelengths and different core radius using
RP Fibre Calculator.
2) As radius increased modes decreased for higher wavelengths.
3) Successfully observed the results of the experiment and obtained the graphs perfectly in RP Fiber
Calculator.