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Optical Communication
Communication by Light
Communication system with light as the carrier and fiber as communication medium Propagation of light in atmosphere impractical:
the great attenuation of the light due to atmospheric effects such as water vapor, oxygen, particles.
Optical fiber is used, glass or plastic, to contain and guide light waves
Capacity
Microwave at 10 GHz with 10% utilization ratio: BW Light at 100 Tera Hz (1014 ) with 10% utilization ratio:100 THz (10,000GHz)
1 GHz
History
1880 Alexander Graham Bell 1930 Patents on tubing 1950 Patent for two-layer glass wave-guide 1960 Laser first used as light source 1965 High loss of light discovered 1970s Refining of manufacturing process 1980s OF technology becomes backbone of long distance telephone networks in NA.
Optical Fiber
Fibers of glass Usually 120 micrometers in diameter Used to carry signals in the form of light over distances up to 50 km. No repeaters needed. Core thin glass center of the fiber where light travels. Cladding outer optical material surrounding the core Buffer Coating plastic coating that protects the fiber.
Areas of Application
Telecommunications Local Area Networks Cable TV
CCTV
Optical Fiber Sensors
Fiber-to-light Interface
Amplifier/Shaper Decoder
Output
These digital pulses are then used to flash a powerful light source off and on very rapidly.
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Light detector:
PIN (p-type-intrinsic-n-type) or APD (avalanche photo diode) both convert light energy into current
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Fiber-Optic Cable
The fiber, which is called the core, is usually surrounded by a protective cladding. The cladding is also made of glass or plastic but has a lower index of refraction. This ensures that the proper interface is achieved so that the light waves remain within the core. In addition to protecting the fiber core from nicks and scratches, the cladding adds strength. Some fiber optic cables have a glass core with a glass cladding. Others have a plastic core with a plastic cladding. Another common arrangement is a glass core with a plastic cladding. It is called plastic clad silica (PCS) cable.
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Fiber-Optic Cable
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When light passes through another material such as glass, its speed is slower.
Total Internal Reflection
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Fiber-Optic Cable
Optical fibers use reflection to guide light through a channel.
A glass or plastic core is surrounded by a cladding of less dense glass or plastic. The difference in density of the two materials must be such that a beam of light moving through the core is reflected off the cladding instead of being refracted into it.
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Fiber-Optic Cable
Glass has superior optical characteristics over plastic. Although plastic is less expensive and more flexible, its attenuation of light is greater. For a given intensity, light will travel a greater distance in glass than in plastic. For very long distance transmissions, glass is certainly preferred. For shorter distances, plastic is much more practical.
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Type of Fibers
Optical fibers come in two types: Single-mode fibers used to transmit one signal per fiber (used in telephone and cable TV). They have small cores(9 microns in diameter) and transmit infra-red light from laser. Multi-mode fibers used to transmit many signals per fiber (used in computer networks). They have larger cores(62.5 microns in diameter) and transmit infra-red light from LED.
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Disadvantages:
Difficult to couple light in and out of the tiny core Highly directive light source (laser) is required. Interfacing modules are more expensive
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It is also the easiest to make and, therefore, the least expensive. It is widely used for short to medium distances at relatively low pulse frequencies.
The main advantage of a multimode step-index fiber is the large size. Typical core diameters are in the 50- to 1000 m range.
large diameter cores are excellent at gathering light and transmitting it efficiently.
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n2 cladding
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Multimode graded index fiber cables have several modes or paths of transmission through the cable, but they are much more orderly and predictable.
Because of the continuously varying index of refraction across the core, the light rays are bent smoothly and converge repeatedly at points along the cable.
The light rays near the edge of the core take a longer path but travel faster since the index of refraction is lower. All the modes or light paths tend to arrive at one point simultaneously. The result is that there is less modal dispersion.
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Variable n
Index profile
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Fiber types
Type
50/125 62.5/12 5 100/125 7/125
Core
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Cladding
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Mode
Multimode, graded-index
62.5
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Multimode,
graded-index Multimode, graded-index Single-mode
100 7
125 125
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qC sin
Acceptance Cone
n1 n2
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qC
NA sin qC n1 n2
2
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R = 1/(5dD)
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1 0
0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Wavelength (mm)
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Cable Attenuation
The main specification of a fiber-optic cable is its attenuation. Attenuation refers to the loss of light energy as the light pulse travels from one end of the cable to the other. The intensity of the light at the output is lower because of various losses in the cable.
The main reason for the loss in light intensity over the length of the cable is due to light absorption, scattering, and dispersion.
Absorption
Scattering
Radiation
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Cable Attenuation
Absorption refers to how the light waves are actually "soaked up" in the core material due to the impurity of the glass or plastic. Scattering refers to the light lost because of light waves entering at the wrong angle and being lost in the cladding due to refraction. Dispersion refers to the pulse stretching caused by the many different paths through the cable.
Although no light is lost as such in dispersion, the output is still lower in amplitude than the input but the length of the light pulse has increased in duration.
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Dispersion
There are two different types of dispersion in optical fibers. Intramodal, or chromatic, dispersion occurs in all types of fibers. Intermodal, or modal dispersion occurs only in multimode fibers. Each type of dispersion mechanism leads to pulse spreading. As a pulse spreads, energy is overlapped. The spreading of the optical pulse as it travels along the fiber limits the information capacity of the fiber.
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Intramodal dispersion
Intramodal dispersion occurs because different colors of light travel through different materials and different waveguide structures at different speeds. There are 2 types:
Material dispersion occurs because the spreading of a light pulse is dependent on the wavelengths' interaction with the refractive index of the fiber core. Different wavelengths travel at different speeds in the fiber material. Different wavelengths of a light pulse that enter a fiber at one time exit the fiber at different times. Material dispersion is a function of the source spectral width. The spectral width specifies the range of wavelengths that can propagate in the fiber. Material dispersion is less at longer wavelengths. Waveguide dispersion occurs because the mode propagation constant is a function of the size of the fiber's core relative to the wavelength of operation. Waveguide dispersion also occurs because light propagates differently in the core than in the cladding.
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Intermodal dispersion
Intermodal or modal dispersion causes the input light pulse to spread.
The input light pulse is made up of a group of modes. As the modes propagate along the fiber, light energy distributed among the modes is delayed by different amounts.
Modal dispersion occurs because each mode travels a different distance over the same time span. The modes of a light pulse that enter the fiber at one time exit the fiber a different times. This condition causes the light pulse to spread. As the length of the fiber increases, modal dispersion increases.
It is the dominant source of dispersion in multimode fibers. It does not exist in single mode fibers. Single mode fibers propagate only the fundamental mode. single mode fibers exhibit the lowest amount of total dispersion. Single mode fibers also exhibit the highest possible bandwidth.
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Cable Attenuation
The amount of attenuation, of course, varies with the type of cable and its size. Glass has less attenuation than plastic Wider cores have less attenuation than narrower cores.
The attenuation is directly proportional to the length of the cable.
Doubling the length of a cable doubles the attenuation, and so on. The attenuation of a fiber optic cable is expressed in decibels per unit of length.
decibels per kilometer
The standard decibel formula used is dB = 10 log (Po/Pi) where Po is the power out and Pi is the power in.
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Cable Attenuation
The attenuation ratings of fiber optic cables varies over a considerable range.
The finest single mode step index cables have an attenuation of only 1 dB/km. very large core plastic fiber cables can have an attenuation of several thousand decibels per kilometer.
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Cable Attenuation
If a cable has an attenuation of 15 dB/km. then a 5-km length cable has a total attenuation of 5(15) = 75 dB. If two cables are spliced together and one has an attenuation of 17 dB and the other 24 dB, the total attenuation is simply the sum, or 17 + 24 = 41 dB.
When long fiber optic cables are needed, two or more cables may be spliced together.
The ends of the cable are perfectly aligned and then glued together with a special, clear, low-loss epoxy.
Connectors are also used. A variety of connectors provide a convenient way to splice cables and attach them to transmitters, receivers, and repeaters.
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Output
Considerations: Wavelength: 0.85, 1.3, 1.55, DWDM Transverse mode: SM vs. MM Modulation: Direct vs. external vs. integrated modulator
Considerations: Wavelength: 0.85, 1.3, 1.55, DWDM Transverse mode: SM vs. MM Dispersion Loss
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Optical Transmitters
Conventional light sources such as incandescent lamps cannot be used in fiber optic systems.
The reason for this is that they are simply too slow. An incandescent light source consists of a filament that heats up and emits light. Such a light source cannot be turned off and on fast enough because of the thermal delay in the filament.
In order to transmit high speed digital pulses, a very fast light source must be used.
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Light source
Light-Emitting Diodes (LED) made from material such as AlGaAs or GaAsP light is emitted when electrons and holes recombine either surface emitting or edge emitting Injection Laser Diodes (ILD) similar in construction as LED except ends are highly polished to reflect photons back & forth
Disadvantages:
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Most LEDs are GaAs devices optimized for producing red light.
LED is a fast semiconductor device, it can be turned off and on very quickly. Therefore, it is capable of transmitting the narrow light pulses required in a digital fiber-optic system.
Can be designed to emit virtually any color of light desired.
The LEDs used for fiber-optic transmission are usually in the red and low infrared ranges.
Typical wavelengths of LED light commonly used are 0.82, 0.94, 1.3, and 1.55 m (all in the near-infrared range just below red light). The light is not visible to the naked eye.
have been chosen primarily because most fiber-optic cables have the lowest losses in these wavelength ranges.
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They come with a fiber-optic "pigtail" already attached for optimum coupling of light. The pigtail usually has a connector that attaches to the main cable. There are two basic ways that digital data is formatted in fiber-optic systems.
Return-to-zero (RZ) Non-return-to-zero (NRZ)
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LED Transmitter
The Digital data to be transmitted is converted into a serial pulse train, encoded and then applied to light transmitter.
The light transmitter consists of the LED and its associated driving circuitry.
The binary pulses are applied to a logic gate which, in turn, operates a transistor switch Q1 that turns the LED off and on. A positive pulse at the NAND gate input causes the NAND output to go to zero. This turns off Q1, so the LED is forward-biased through R2 and turns on. With zero input, the NAND output is 1, so Q1 turns on and shunts current away from the LED.
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Optical Receivers
The receiver part of the optical communications system is relatively simple. It consists of a detector that will sense the light pulses and convert them into an electrical signal. This signal is then amplified and shaped into the original serial digital data. The most critical component, of course, is the light sensor.
The most widely used light sensor is a photodiode. This is a silicon PN junction diode that is sensitive to light.
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Light Detectors
PIN Diodes
photons are absorbed in the intrinsic layer sufficient energy is added to generate carriers in the depletion layer for current to flow through the device
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Each laser is switched off and on with the desired data. The laser beams are then optically combined and transmitted over a single fiber cable.
Wavelength-Division Multiplexing
WDM sends information through a single optical Fiber using lights of different wavelengths simultaneously.
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l1
Multiplexer
Demultiplexer
l1
l2 l3
ln-1 ln
Laser Optical sources
l2 l3
Optical amplifier ln-1 ln
Laser Optical detectors
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WDM System
WDM increases the carrying capacity of the physical medium (fiber) using a completely different method from TDM. At the receiving end of the cable, special optical filters are used to separate the light-beams into individual channels. Each light beam is detected with an optical sensor and then converted into the four individual data streams. WDM significantly increases the data-handling capacity of fiber-optic cable.
When WDM multiplexer/demultiplexer units are added to existing systems, more data channels and/or higher data speeds can be accommodated.
Systems with 8. 16, or 32 channels are available.
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WDM System
WDM systems are divided in different wavelength patterns, conventional or coarse and dense WDM. Conventional WDM systems provide up to 16 channels in the 3rd transmission window (C-band) of silica fibers around 1550 nm. DWDM uses the same transmission window but with denser channel spacing.
Channel plans vary, but a typical system would use 40 channels at 100 GHz spacing or 80 channels with 50 GHz spacing. Some technologies are capable of 25 GHz spacing (sometimes called ultra dense WDM).
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