VAAGESWARI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, Karimnagar

NAME : T.NAGESHWAR RAO

DEPT : ECE-A
CLASS : IV B. TECH II SEM
SUBJECT : OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS

TEACHING AND LESSON PLAN

TEXT BOOKS:
1. Optical Fiber Communications – Gerd Keiser, TMH, 4th Edition, 2008.
2. Optical Fiber Communications – John M. Senior, Pearson Education, 3rd Edition, 2009.
REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. Fiber Optic Communications – D.K. Mynbaev, S.C. Gupta and Lowell L. Scheiner, Pearson
Education, 2005.
2. Text Book on Optical Fibre Communication and its Applications – S.C. Gupta, PHI, 2005.
3. Fiber Optic Communication Systems – Govind P. Agarwal, John Wiley, 3rd Ediition,2004.
4. Introduction to Fiber Optics by Donald J.Sterling Jr. – Cengage learning, 2004.
5. Optical Communication Systems – John Gowar, 2nd Edition, PHI, 2001.

S.No Period Topic to be covered No Of Date

Periods
Required
1 Overview of Optical Fiber Communication 1
2 Historical development, The general system 1
3 Advantages of Optical Fiber Communications, Optical 1
Fiber Wave Guides- Introduction
4 UNIT-1 Ray Theory Transmission, Total Internal Reflection 1 20/12/2019
5 Acceptance Angle, Numerical Aperture, Skew Rays 1 to
6 Cylindrical Fibers- Modes, Vnumber, Mode Coupling 1 09/01/2020
7 Step Index Fibers, Graded Index Fibers 1
8 Single Mode Fibers- Cut Off Wavelength, Mode Field 1
Diameter
9 Effective Refractive Index, Fiber Materials Glass 1
10 Halide, Active Glass 1
11 Chalgenide Glass, Plastic Optical Fibers 2
TOTAL NO OF PERIODS – 12
12 Signal Distortion in Optical Fibers: Attenuation, 1
Absorption, Scattering
13 Bending Losses, Core and Cladding Losses 3
14 UNIT-2 Information Capacity Determination, Group Delay, Types 3 10/01/2020
of Dispersion to
15 Material Dispersion, Wave-Guide Dispersion 3 02/02/2020
16 Polarization Mode Dispersion, Intermodal Dispersion, 2
Pulse Broadening
17 Optical Fiber Connectors- Connector Types, 2
Single Mode Fiber Connectors, Connector Return Loss
TOTAL NO OF CLASSES-14
18 Fiber Splicing: Splicing Techniques 2
19 Splicing Single Mode Fibers 2 03/02/2020
20 Fiber Alignment and Joint Loss 2 To
21 Multimode Fiber Joints, Single Mode Fiber Joints 2 09/02/2020
UNIT -3
22 Optical Sources- LEDs, Structures, Materials 2
23 Quantum Efficiency, Power, Modulation, Power 2 12/02/2020
Bandwidth Product to
24 Injection Laser Diodes- Modes, Threshold Conditions, 1 26/02/2020
External Quantum Efficiency
25 Laser Diode Rate Equations, Resonant Frequencies, 1
Reliability of LED & ILD
26 Output Patterns, Power Coupling, Power Launching 1
27 Equilibrium Numerical Aperture, Laser Diode to Fiber 1
Coupling
TOTAL NO OF CLASSES-16
28 Optical Detectors: Physical Principles of PIN and APD 2
29 Detector Response Time, Temperature Effect on Avalanche 2
UNIT-4 Gain, Comparison of Photo Detectors 27/02/2020
30 Optical Receiver Operation- Fundamental Receiver 2 to
Operation, Digital Signal Transmission 15/03/2020
31 Error Sources, Receiver Configuration, Digital Receiver 3
Performance
Probability of Error, Quantum Limit, Analog Receivers 3
TOTAL NO OF PERIODS - 12
32 Optical System Design: Considerations, Component 2
Choice, Multiplexing, Point-to- Point Links 16/03/2020
33 System Considerations, Link Power Budget with Examples 3 to
34 UNIT-5 Overall Fiber Dispersion in Multi-Mode and Single Mode 3 07/04/2020
Fibers, Rise Time Budget with Examples
35 Transmission Distance, Line Coding in Optical Links, 2
WDM, Necessity, Principles
36 Types of WDM, Measurement of Attenuation and 3
Dispersion, Eye Pattern
TOTAL NO OF PERIODS – 13

TOTAL NO OF PERIODS-67

SUBJECT TEACHER HOD PRINCIPAL