Broadband Communication System - Unit 3 - WDM
Broadband Communication System - Unit 3 - WDM
Broadband Communication System - Unit 3 - WDM
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1. Make a graphical comparision and a spreadsheet calculation of the maximum
attenuation limited transmission distance of the following two systems operating at
100Mbps:
System 1 operating at 850nm
a)GaAlAs laser diode :0dBm(1mW) fiber coupled power
b)Silicon Avalanche Photodiode : 50dBm
c)Graded Index Fiber :3.5 dB/km attenuation at 850 nm
d)Connector Loss :1 dB/Connector
System 2 operating at 1300nm
a)InGaAsP LED : 13dBm(1mW) fiber coupled power
b)InGaAs pin Photodiode : 38dBm
c)Graded Index Fiber :1.5 dB/km attenuation at 1300 nm
d)Connector Loss :1 dB/Connector
Allow a 6dB system operating margin in each case.
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2. An Engineer has the following components available :
(a)GaAlAs laser diode operating at 850nm and capable of coupling 1mW (0dBm)
into a fiber .
(b)Ten sections of cable each of which is 500m long ,has a 4 dB/km attenuation ,
and has connectors on both ends.
(c)Connector loss of 2 dB/connector
(d)A pin photo diode receiver .
Using these components ,the engineer wishes to construct a 5 km link operating at
20Mbps. If the sensetivities of the pin and APD receivers are 45 and
56dBm,respectively,which receiver should be used if a 6dB system operating margin
is required ?
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3. An optical fiber link of length 4 km comprises a fiber cable with an attenuation of
5dB/km. The splice losses for the link are estimated at 2dB/km, and the connector
losses at the source and detector are 3.5 and 2.5 dB respectively. Ignoring the effects
of dispersion on the link determine the total channel loss.
Power Budget Analysis:
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4. An optical fiber system is to be designed to operate over an 8 km length without
repeaters. The rise times of the chosen components are:
Component Parameters
Source (LED) 8 ns
Fiber intermodal 5 ns km–1
Intramodal(pulse broadening) 1 ns km–1
Detector (p–i–n photodiode) 6 ns
From system rise time considerations, estimate the maximum bit rate that may be
achieved on the link when using an NRZ format.
Rise Time Budget:
Tsys Calculation
Tb in terms of Tsysfor NRZ Format
Calculation of maximum Data rate
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5. For a digital link using optical fiber of 6 km link
Components Rise time
LED with its driver circuit 15ns
Material dispersion related rise time 21 ns
degradation
Model dispersion induced fiber 3.9 nsec
Receiver rise time degradation 14 nsec
Assuming that receiver has 25MHz bandwidth, calculate link rise time.
Rise Time Budget :
Tsys Calculation
Link Rise Time :
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6. For a typical parameters for a link.
Data rate = 1 GHz.
DFB Laser spectral width = 0.1nm
SM fiber dispersion at 1550nm = 20 ps/km/nm = 0.02 ns/km/nm
Rise time of the receiver = 0.1 nsec
Rise time of the transmitter = 0.1nsec
Fiber loss = 0.4dB/km
Transmitter power 3 dBm
Min Detectable power 40 dBm(Neglect splice and connector losses.)
Calculate the Maximum distance to which the communication can be done using the
above values (using both rise time and power budget analysis )
Power Budget Analysis:
LPTmax =
(SNR becomes ___________(acceptable /unacceptable )beyond this distance
Rise Time Budget :
LRTmax =
Distortion becomes_____________(acceptable /unacceptable )beyond this distance
So, for the above condition the Distance to which communication can be done (without
repeater or amplifier ) is________