COMSATS University Islamabad

Department of Physics
Final Examination Spring 2018
EEE455 Optical Fiber Communications

Class: BEL-07/08 Time allowed: 3 Hours

Instructor: Muhammad Ibrahim khan Total marks: 50

Que1: (7+3)

a) 10mW optical power is launched into a fiber with attenuation of 0.3dB/km. The link has
connectors at every 20 km with loss of 0.2dB per connector. In addition, there is a coupling loss
of 0.8dB at the transmitter and 0.7 dB at receiver. The receiver’s sensitivity is -30dBm. Find the
maximum length of the optical fiber that can be used.

b) When the mean optical power launched into 8km fiber is 120µw, the output power is 3µw.
Determine

i. Overall Signal loss in dB

ii. Overall signal attenuation for a 10km link using the same fiber with connectors at
1km intervals each giving signal loss of 1dB.

Que2: (6+4)

a) Calculate the internal quantum efficiency of 1.3µm LED at a forward current of 100mA, if
75µw (7.5% of LED output power) is coupled into the fiber.

b) Calculate the power coupled into a fiber generated by an LED operating at 1.55µm with a
forward current of 0.15A. Assume the internal quantum efficiency of the source is 2% and the
fiber acceptance angle is 200. Also compute the coupling efficiency.

Que3: (2+4+4)

a) Differentiate between a repeater and optical amplifier with the help of block diagrams.
b) The carrier velocity of a PIN photodiode is 3×104 m/s. Depletion layer width is 20µm,
0.05mm2 area and dielectric constant of 11.7 is operated with a 10 k load resistance.
Determine the bandwidth of the diode.
c) A p-n photodiode has a quantum efficiency of 50% at a wavelength of 0.9µm. Calculate its
responsivity and received optical power if the mean photocurrent is 1µA.
Que4: (4+6)

a) Suppose that WDM wavelengths in the 1550 nm band are separated by 0.8 nm. What is the
frequency separation? Also find how many independent signals can be transmitted in the
1530-1560 nm band on a single fiber.
 b) A voice signal is digitized using PCM, each voice sample is assigned 8 bits. TDM frame is
formed by 24 voice samples.
i. What is the size of a frame in bits?
ii. If the frame rate is 8kHz. What is the duration of a frame?
iii. What is the date rate?

Que5: (2+4+4)

a) Five channels, each with a 100-kHz bandwidth are to be multiplexed using TDM. Find the
minimum bandwidth of the link, if there is a need for a guard band of 10 kHz between the
channels to prevent interference?

b) Convert the following IP address 1110011101001100111101111101011 into dotted decimal

notation and identify its class.

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