EC-801 · Optical Fibre Communication/Official Syllabus
Optical Fibre Communication (EC-801) - Official Syllabus
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Unit 1
Introduction to vector nature of light
- Introduction to vector nature of light
- propagation of light
- propagation of light in a cylindrical dielectric rod
- Ray model
- wave model
- Different types of optical fibers
- Modal analysis of fiber
- Optical fibres : Structure & wave guiding fundamentals
- basic optical laws
2
Unit 2
Signal degradation in Optical Fibre
- Signal degradation on optical fiber due to dispersion and attenuation
- intermodal and intramodal dispersion
- Fabrication of fibers
- measurement techniques like OTDR
3
Unit 3
Optical sources and detectors
- LEDs
- LASER diodes
- Basic concepts of optical sources various laser and LED structures
- Optical detectors: basic principle of photo detection
- PIN and avalanche photo diode
- phototransistor
- photo detector noise
- detector response time
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Unit 4
Optical transceivers
- Optical transceivers
- Direct detection and coherent receivers
- noise in detection process
- digital receiver performance calculation
- BER
- System design
- power budgeting
- rise time budgeting
- fibre joints, and splicing techniques
- Optical fibre connectors
5
Unit 5
Optical networks and amplifiers
- Optical networks : Topologies
- networks SONET and SDH
- Optical amplifiers - EDFA
- Raman amplifier
- WDM systems
- Passive Optical Networks
Reference Books
- Optical Fibre Communication
- Fibre Optic Communication Technology
- Optical Fibre Communications: Principles & Practice
- Fibre Optic Communication Systems
- Optical Networks and 3rd Generation Transport Systems
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