KIET Group of Institutions

Department of Electronics and Communication

Engineering COURSE B.Tech., V SEM,
Tutorial No- 1,
Odd Semester Optical Communication
(KEC-058)

Q. No. Questions Marks

1 Consider the interface between a glss slab with n1=1.48 and air for which n2=1.00. What 2
is critical angle for light travelling in the glass.
2 A silica optical fiber with core diameter large enough to be considered through ray 3
theory analysis has a ore refractive index of 1.50 and a cladding refractive index of 1.47.
Determine :
(i) The critical angle at the core-cladding interface
(ii) NA of the fiber
(iii) The acceptance angle in air for the fiber
3 Calculate the numerical aperture of a fiber having n1=1.48 and n2=1.46. What is the 3
maximum entrance angle for this fiber if the outer medium is air with n=1.
4 Consider the interface between fiber core and cladding materials that have refractive 5
indices of n1 and n2, respectively. If n2 is smaller than n1 by 1% and n1=1.450. Show that
n2=1.435. Show that the critical angle ⏀c=81.9o .
5 Consider three light sources having the following optical output powers: 50µW, 1 mW 3
and 50mW. What are the power levels in dBm units?
6 Considera product datasheet for a photo-detector that states that an optical power level 2
of -22 dBm is required to satisfy a specific performance requirement. What is the power
level in nW units.
7 A wave is specified by y= 8 cos 2π(2t-0.8z) where y is expressed in µm and the 5
propagation constant is given in µm -1. Find
(i) The amplitude of the wave
(ii) The wavelength
(iii) The angular frequency
(iv) The displacement at time t=0 and z= 4µm
8 Consider a multimode fiber that has a core refractive index of 1.480 and a core-cladding 5
index difference of 2 %. Find the
(i) Numerical Aperture
(ii) The acceptance angle
(iii) The critical angle
9 A multimode step index fiber with a core diameter of 80µm and a relative index 5
difference of 1.5% is operating at a wavelength of 0.85µm . If the core refractive index is
1.48. Estimate
(i) The normalised frequency for the fiber
(ii) The number of guided modes
10 A step index fiber has a normalized frequency V=26.6at a 1300 nm wavelength. If the 3
core radius is 25µm, what is the numerical aperture of the fiber.