COIMBATORE INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERNG AND TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF ECE
LESSON PLAN (2014-2015)

Lesson plan should not be a cut, copy, paste of syllabus

Details in the topic covered section should be elaborated
NAME OF THE SUBJECT:OPTICAL
COMMUNICATION AND NETWORKING
CLASS & SECTION: IV ECE (A & B)

S.NO

UNITS

1.

NAME OF THE
FACULTY:S.SURESHKUMAR
SEMESTER:VII

TOPICS COVERED

NO.OF HOURS
NEEDED

Introduction

need for communication

Purpose of optical

communication
Element of an optical fibre

2.

transmission link
Ray theory transmission

3.

Reflection
Refraction
Refraction index
Snells law

Total internal reflection

Propagation in Optical fiber

4.

Acceptance angle
Acceptance cone

Numerical Aperture
Types of rays

Meridional rays
Skew rays
Electromagnetic mode theory of optical

5.

UNIT-I
INTRODUCTION

propagation & EM waves

6.

Wave propagation in a

dielectric waveguide
Mode theory for circular

waveguide
7.
8.

9.

Overview of modes
Linearly polarized modes
Cylindrical fibers

Modes and configuration

Types of fibers
Fiber configuration
Mode coupling

1
1

Single Mode Fiber

Graded Index Fiber

10.

2
SM fibers

Mode field diameter

Propagation modes in single
mode fiber

11.

UNIT-I

Attenuation & material absorption

losses in silica glass fibers

13.

Scattering losses
Linear scattering losses
Mie scattering
Stimulated brillouin scattering
Stimulated raman scattering
Fiber bend losses, Midband & infrared

14.

transmission
Intra and intermodal dispersion

15.
16.
17.

18.
19.

20.

21.

22.

TRANSMISSION CHARACTERISTICS OF OPTICAL FIBERS

UNIT-II

12.

Intrinsic absorption
Extrinsic absorption
Linear and Non-linear scattering losses

Group delay
Material dispersion
Waveguide dispersion
Pulse broadening in graded index fiber
Polarization & nonlinear phenomena

1
1
1

Polarization mode dispersion

Modal birefringence
Optical fiber connectors, fiber

alignment & joint losses

Fiber splices

Fusion splices
Mechanical splices
Multiple splices
Connectors

Cylindrical ferrule connectors

Biconical ferrule connectors
Double eccentric connectors
Expanded beam connectors &

GRIN-rod lenses(Grafed

index, rod lenses)

Couplers

Three and four port couplers

Star couplers
Wavelength division
multiplexing couplers

25.

Light Emitting Diode

principle of operation
LED structures
Types of LED
Surface & edge emitters
Quantum efficiency

26.

Internal quantum efficiency

External quantum efficiency
Injection laser diode

23.

24.

UNIT-III
SOURCES AND
28.
29.
30.

DETECTORS

32.
33.

UNIT-IV
FIBER OPTIC
RECEIVER AND

34.

MEASUREMENT
S

35.

36.

UNIT-IV
FIBER OPTIC
RECEIVER AND
MEASUREMENT
S
39.
40.

Error sources
Pre-amplifiers
Low impedance amplifier
High impedance amplifier
Transimpedance amplifier
Receiver Configuration
Probability of error
Quantum limit
Fiber attenuation measurements

Total fiber attenuation

Spot measurements
Fiber absorption loss

measurement
Fiber scattering loss

measurement
Dispersion measurements

37.

38.

Gain guided lasers

Index guided lasers
Index-guided laser structures
PIN photo detectors
Avalanche photodiodes
Photo detector Noise

Noise sources
Signal to Noise ratio
Detector response time
Fundamental receiver operation

31.

1
1

Laser diode modes and

threshold condition
Types of laser diodes

27.

1
1
1

1
1
1

Time domain measurement

Frequency domain

measurement
Fiber refractive index measurement

Interferometric methods
Near field scanning method
Refracted near field method
Fiber cut-off wavelength measurements
Fiber Numerical Aperture

1
1

measurements

41.

Fiber diameter measurements

42.

Outer diameter
Core diameter
Basic Networks

buses
SONET/SDH

43.

44.
45.

Network topology
Performance of passive linear

UNIT-V
OPTICAL
NETWORKS

Transmission formats and

speeds STS
Synchronous transport module
Optical interface
SONET/SDH Rings
SONET/SDH networks
Broadcast-and-select WDM networks

1
1

46.

Single-hop networks
Multihop networks
Shuffle net multihop network
Wavelength routed networks

47.

Optical cross-connects
Wavelength conversion
Nonlinear effects on network

performance

Effective length and area

Stimulated brillouin scattering
Stimulated raman scattering
Self-phase and cross-phase

49.

modulation
Four-wave mixing
Performance of WDM + EDFA systems

50.

Link bandwidth
Optical requirements
Crosstalk
Solitons

Soliton pulse
Soliton parameter
Optical CDMA
Ultrahigh capacity networks

1
1

48.

UNIT-V
51.
52.

Prepared by

(S.SURESH KUMAR)

OPTICAL
NETWORKS

Bit-interleaved TDM
Time-slotted TDM

HOD

(Dr.B.KAARTHICK)

PRINCIPAL

(Dr.N.NAGARAJAN)