Final exam syllabus- CCE-4801-Fiber Optic Communication.

Part A – chapter 5,6,9

Part B – chapter 10,13,14, unit v (optical system design)
Chapter-05: Optical Fiber Communications-joints, Couplers & isolator
• (5.2) Fiber alignment & joint loss
• Equation – 5.2
• Example – 5.1
• Equation – 5.3 & 5.4
• Example – 5.2
• (5.3) Fiber Splices
Theor
• (5.3.1) Fusion Splices
y
• (5.4) Fiber Connector
• Different Types of Connectors
(Only Name)
• (5.6) Fiber Couplers. Figure- 5.26
• Equation: 5.22, 5.23, 5.24, 5.25, 5.26
• Example: 5.7
• Explain the star coupler with a Figure.
Referred- Optical Fiber Communications Principles and Practice.pdf

Chapter- 06 Nonlinear Effects in optical fibers

• Optical Kerr effect (page 23)
• Types of Kerr effect (pages 33 - 42)
#Referred- Chapter- 06 Nonlinear effects in optical fibers - v1

Chapter- 09 Direct detection receiver performance considerations

• Title 9.2 (Noise) - 554
• Subtitle- 9.2.1 Thermal Noise, Analytical Expression of Thermal Noise. (Page- 503
book, PDF- 554)
• Subtitle- 9.2.2 Dark Current Noise (Page 555), 9.2.3 Quantum Noise (Page 555)
• Figure- 9.3 (Page- 510 book, PDF- 561)
• Example- 9.1 (Page- 506 book, PDF-557) 9.2 (Page- 508, PDF-559)
• Problems- 9.1, 9.3, 9.9 (Page- 542, 543, PDF- 593, 594)
#Referred- Optical Fiber Communications Principles and Practice.
 Chapter- 10 Optical Amplifier
Why optical Amplifiers?
Types of Amplifiers-
1. Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier 3. Raman Amplifiers
(EDFAs) 4. Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers
2. Erbium-Doped waveguide amplifier (SOA)
(EDWAs)
• General application of optical Amplification
• Working principle of the Erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA)
• Operation of Erbium-doped fiber Amplifier
• Issues of Amplifier Design
• Explain following terms—1. Efficiency 2. Gain. 3. Noise-figure
• EDFA categories
• Function of EDWA
• Why Raman Amplifier is needed? Advantages and disadvantages
• What is Semiconductor amplifier?
• Advantages and disadvantages of semiconductor amplifier.
• Operations of Semiconductor.
#Referred- Optical Amplifiers PPT.
Chapter -13 Optical fiber systems 2: coherent and phase-modulated
• fig 13.1 - Block Diagram of Basic Coherent System (page 879)
• Title 13.3 - Explain Coherent Detection System (page 881)
• Title 13.5 - Modulation Format of the Coherent System (page 896-902)
• Figure-13.1 (Draw the basic coherent system) ***
• Figure-13.3(Coherent Receiver Model)
• Equation -13.1,13.2,13,3 Related Problem solving.
• Figure 13.13 - Explain the Modulation Format
• Example Math: 13.3,13.4,13.5 (page 929 – 935)
#Referred- Optical Fiber Communications Principles and Practice.
Chapter- 14 Optical fiber measurements
• Example 14.7 (page 1001), 14.8 (page 1004)
• Subtitle 14.10.1 - Optical time domain reflectometry (page 1003)
• Eqn 14.38 (page 1003)
• Fig 14.9 (page 974), 14.33 (page 1005), 14.34 (page 1006)
• Problem 14.17, 14.18 (page 1012,1013)
#Referred- Optical Fiber Communications Principles and Practice.

UNIT-V OPTICAL SYSTEM DESIGN

• Optical system design (page 144)
• Subtitle- Link Power Budget (Page- 155 PDF)
• Math Example- Problem for Optical System Design (Page- 156-158 PDF)
• Subtitle- Rise Time Budget {Power Measurement System} (Page- 159-161 PDF)
• Math Example- (Page- 161, 162 PDF) tsys Maths.
• WDM, need of WDM (page 163), CWDM vs DWDM (page 164)
• Operational principles of WDM (page 166)
• WDM operating regions (page 166) (figure 3.1)
• Eqn of channel spacing 3.1 (page 167)
• Generic WDM link – fig 3.2 (page 168), Fig 7.1.1 (page 169)
• Features of WDM, Passive component (page 169-170)
• OSNR, Eye diagram, BER (google this terms)
#Referred- FIBER OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS (R17A0418) Lecture Notes.