Fiber Optics Communication
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Fiber Optics Communication Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Fiber Optics Communication (subject code 4341103) as prescribed for IC · Semester 4 divides the course into 5 units, covering 67 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (4341103)Unit 1 Optical Fiber Waveguide
- 1.1. Optical fiber waveguide:
- 1.1.1. Ray propagation in step index fiber,
- 1.1.2. Numerical Aperture and acceptance angel,
- 1.1.3. Skew rays and Meridional rays,
- 1.1.4. Optical signal as a EM wave with mode concept,
- 1.1.5. V-number & normalized frequency.
- 1.2. Types of Optical Fiber:
- 1.2.1. Step Index and Graded Index.
- 1.2.2. Single Mode and Multi- Mode,
- 1.2.3. Cut off wavelength.
- 1.3. Attenuation: Fiber Optics Communication Course Code: 4341103
- 1.3.1. Absorption losses: intrinsic and extrinsic,
- 1.3.2. Linear scattering losses: Rayleigh and Mie,
- 1.3.3. Fiber bend losses: micro and macro.
- 1.4.1. Intermodal Dispersion in Multi-mode Step Index fiber,
- 1.4.2. Intra-modal (Chromatic) Dispersion: material and Wave guide dispersion.
- 1.5. General configuration of Fiber optic communication system.
Unit 2 Optical Fiber: Cables & Connections
- 2.1. Fiber Fabrication:
- 2.1.1. Fiber Materials,
- 2.1.2. Double crucible method,
- 2.1.3. Vapor deposition methods: MCVD, VAD,
- 2.1.4. Fiber drawing process.
- 2.2. Fiber Optic Cables:
- 2.2.1. Needs of cabling,
- 2.2.2. FiberCables: Slotted core, loose tube and multi-fiber ribbon.
- 2.3. Connection losses:
- 2.3.1. Extrinsic Parameters: Fresnel reflection, Misalignment, and other factors,
- 2.3.2. Intrinsic Parameters: NA mismatch, diameter mismatch,
- 2.3.3. Fiber end preparation for loss minimization.
- 2.4.1. Fusions Splices,
- 2.4.2. Mechanical splices: Capillary, V-grooved, Loose tube, Spring groove and Fiber Optics Communication Course Code: 4341103 elastomeric splices.
- 2.5. Fiber optic connectors types as per TIA, IEC and ANSI standards.
- 2.6. SOP for Fiber cable laying.
Unit 3 Optical Sources and Detectors
- 3.1. Basic concepts of Absorption and Emission in semiconductor.
- 3.2. Characteristic of ideal optical source.
- 3.3. Construction and Operating Principle of LED.
- 3.4. Concept of Heterojunctions LED structure:
- 3.5. Construction and Operating Principles of Semiconductor LASER Diode.
- 3.6. Quantum efficiency and Responsivity.
- 3.7. Photo diodes
- 3.7.3. Avalanche photodiode.
- 3.8. Coupling between fiber and Source/ detector:
- 3.8.1. Source to fiber,
- 3.8.2. Fiber to detector.
- 3.9. LED driver circuit (digital).
- 3.10. LASER driver circuit (digital).
- 3.11. Optical receiver block diagram.
- 3.12. Regenerative repeater.
Unit 4 Optical Components
- 4.1. Optical components: types and functions:
- 4.1.1. Optical Coupler,
- 4.1.2. Optical switches,
- 4.1.3. Beam splitter,
- 4.1.4. Optical multiplexer and demultiplexer,
- 4.1.5. Optical wavelength Fiber Optics Communication Course Code: 4341103 converter,
- 4.2. Concept of Bragg grating.
- 4.3. Optical Amplifiers:
- 4.3.1. Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers,
- 4.3.3. Raman amplifier.
Unit 5 Optical parameter measurement and applications of WDM
- 5.1. Fiber parameters measurement:
- 5.1.2. Numerical Aperture,
- 5.1.3. Inter modal dispersion,
- 5.1.4. Refractive Index profile.
- 5.2. Optical power meter
- 5.3. Optical time domain reflectometer.
- 5.4. WDM & DWDM.
- 5.5. SONET/SDH, FDDI, FTTP.
- 5.6. E-waste Management of Optical waste.
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