This document outlines the course details for Optical Fiber Communication at the University of Mumbai. The course is a semester 8 class for a B.E. in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering. It includes 4 lecture hours, 2 practical hours, no tutorial hours per week. Students will be evaluated through a 3 hour theory exam worth 100 marks, no practical exam, and an oral exam worth 25 marks. The term work evaluation includes a 15 mark report on experiments and 10 marks for written tests. The course covers topics such as light propagation in fibers, fiber optic technologies, signal degradation, optical sources and detectors, receiver operation, fiber systems, and optical fiber measurements.
This document outlines the course details for Optical Fiber Communication at the University of Mumbai. The course is a semester 8 class for a B.E. in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering. It includes 4 lecture hours, 2 practical hours, no tutorial hours per week. Students will be evaluated through a 3 hour theory exam worth 100 marks, no practical exam, and an oral exam worth 25 marks. The term work evaluation includes a 15 mark report on experiments and 10 marks for written tests. The course covers topics such as light propagation in fibers, fiber optic technologies, signal degradation, optical sources and detectors, receiver operation, fiber systems, and optical fiber measurements.
This document outlines the course details for Optical Fiber Communication at the University of Mumbai. The course is a semester 8 class for a B.E. in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering. It includes 4 lecture hours, 2 practical hours, no tutorial hours per week. Students will be evaluated through a 3 hour theory exam worth 100 marks, no practical exam, and an oral exam worth 25 marks. The term work evaluation includes a 15 mark report on experiments and 10 marks for written tests. The course covers topics such as light propagation in fibers, fiber optic technologies, signal degradation, optical sources and detectors, receiver operation, fiber systems, and optical fiber measurements.
This document outlines the course details for Optical Fiber Communication at the University of Mumbai. The course is a semester 8 class for a B.E. in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering. It includes 4 lecture hours, 2 practical hours, no tutorial hours per week. Students will be evaluated through a 3 hour theory exam worth 100 marks, no practical exam, and an oral exam worth 25 marks. The term work evaluation includes a 15 mark report on experiments and 10 marks for written tests. The course covers topics such as light propagation in fibers, fiber optic technologies, signal degradation, optical sources and detectors, receiver operation, fiber systems, and optical fiber measurements.
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S.I.E.S.
Graduate School of Technology
UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI (R – 2001)
Class: B.E. (Electronics And Telecommunication Engg.) Semester VIII
Sub: Optical Fiber Communication Period per week Lecture 4 1 period of 60 min. Practical 2 Tutorial - Hours Marks Theory Examination 3 100 Practical - - Evaluation system Oral Examination - 25 Term work - 25
1. Overview of Optical Fiber Communication:
Communication system applications in the electromagnetic spectrum, elements of an optical fiber transmission link, advantages of optical fiber communication 2. Light Propagation in Optical Fiber: Fiber types, rays and modes, ray theory transmission, electromagnetic mode theory for optical propagation, single mode and multimode fibers, linearly polarized modes. 3. Fiber Optic Technology: Fiber materials, fiber fabrication, fiber optic cables, couplers, splices, connectors. 4. Signal degradation in optical fibers: Attenuation, dispersion, bit rate and bandwidths, mode coupling. 5. Optical Sources and Detectors: Related semiconductor physics, Light emitting diodes, Laser diodes, their characteristics, modulation circuits, optical detection principles, quantum efficiency, responsivity, response time, photo detector noise, PIN and Avalanche photodiodes. 6. Optical Receiver Operation: Noise, Receiver capacitance, receiver structures, pre-amplifiers. 7. Optical Fiber Systems: Link power budget, rise time budget, analog systems, digital systems, coherent systems, homodyne and heterodyne detection, multiplexing.
Department of Electronics and Telecommunication
S.I.E.S. Graduate School of Technology
8. Optical Fiber Measurements:
Measurement of attenuation, dispersion, refractive index profile, numerical aperture, fiber diameter, OTDR.
Term work: Each student has to appear for at least two written test during the term. Report on experiments (at least six from the list of suggested experiment) along with a graded answer paper shall be submitted as termwork.
The distribution of termwork will be as follows:
Report on experiments – 15 marks Written Test – 10 marks
