BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, RANCHI, INDIA DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS & COMM ENGINEERING

EC 6107 - FIBER OPTICS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

Module 1: Introduction: Generations of optical communication, Advantages. Elements of an optical fiber transmission link. (2) Text Book: 1. G. Keiser, Optical Fiber Communication, McGraw Hill, 3rd Ed. Module 2: Optical Fiber: Classification of Fibers, Fiber materials and fabrication methods, Ray optics representation & Wave optics representation for step Index and Graded Index fibers, Modes, Phase & Group velocity, Goos-Hanchen Shift, Power flow in Step Index Fibers. (10) Text Book: 1. G. Keiser, Optical Fiber Communication, McGraw Hill, 3rd Ed. Module 3: Attenuation and Dispersion in optical fiber: Signal attenuation and distortion in optical fibers, Dispersion effects in optical fibers. (5) Text Book: 1. G. Keiser, Optical Fiber Communication, McGraw Hill, 3rd Ed.

Module 4: Optical Sources: Structure and materials of LED and LD sources operating characteristics and modulation capabilities of the LED and LD sources. (9) Source to Fiber Power launching and coupling, Lensing schemes for coupling improvement, Fiber to fiber couplings and alignment methods, Splicing techniques, Fiber Connectors. (3) Text Book: 1. G. Keiser, Optical Fiber Communication, McGraw Hill, 3rd Ed. Module 5: Optical Receiver: Optical receiver configuration and performance, Pre-amplifier design for optical receiver, analog and Digital receiver. (3) Point to point transmission links, Wavelength division multiplexing, Optical data buses, Link power and rise time budget, Optical Amplifier. (5) Text Books:

BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, RANCHI, INDIA DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS & COMM ENGINEERING 1. G. Keiser, Optical Fiber Communication, McGraw Hill, 3rd Ed. Module 6: Optical Networking: Fiber optics in LAN, MAN, SAN, WAN, FDDI architecture, SONET/ SDH architecture, SONET/ SDH network elements (5) Text Book: 1. Optical Networking and WDM, Walter Goralski, Tata McGraw-Hill.

Module 7: Potential applications and future prospects of optical fibers, multimode intensity sensors and single mode, Interferomatric sensors. (3) Text Book: 1. Fundamentals of Fiber optics in telecommunication and sensor systems, B.P.Pal, New Age International (P) Ltd. Publishers, 2001.

Text Books: 1. G. Keiser, Optical Fiber Communication, McGraw Hill, 3rd Ed. 2. J. M. Senior, Optical Fiber Communications, PHI, 2nd Ed. 3. Ghatak & Thyagarajan, Introduction to fiber Optics, Cambridge University press. 4. J.H.Franz &V.K.Jain, Optical Communications, Narosa Publishing House. 5. Harold Kolimbiris, Fibre Optics Communication, Pearson Education.