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Tech (7th Semester Electronics and Communication Engineering) Session: July 2013 December 2013 Subject: Photonic Switching 1st Assignment (submission date: September 9th 2013)
Q. No. 1: Explain following terms (a) SONET (b) SDH (C) Optical 3R generation technology(d) Transparency to bit rate and data format Q. No. 2: Discuss the important performance parameters of an optical switch. Q. No. 3: Differentiate a generalized three-stage Clos network and Benes architecture. Q. No. 4: What are blocking, non-blocking (Strict sense and wide sense) and re-arrangeable optical switch architectures. Q. No. 5: Differentiate Acousto-optic and SOA based optical switches. Please use the OptiBPM/OptiFDTD design tool and simulator to design and calculate the parameter of the switch given in the following question (Q. No. 6) Q. No. 6: Design and analyse any of the following optical switch architecture. (a) MZI Switch (b) MMI switch (c) Digital optical switch Also please plot their characteristic in terms of Insertion Loss, Excess Loss and Crosstalk (all in dB with respect to the input wavelength variations. (The material background may choose from Lithium Niobate, Si, SiO2, Polymers)