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ExampleA common optical component is the equal-power splitter
which splits the incoming optical power evenly among M outputs. By reversing this component, we can make a combiner, which can be made to deliver to a single output the sum of the input powers if multimode fiber is used, but which splits the power incoming to each port by a factor of M if single-mode fiber is used.(a) Compare the loss in dB between the worst-case pair of
nodes for the 3 topologies if the number of nodes is N = 128 and multimode is used. Assume that, for the tree, there are 32 nodes in each of the top two clusters and 64 nodes in the bottom one.
(b) What would these numbers become if single-mode fiber were used?
(c) How would you go about reducing the very large accumulated splitting loss for the bus?
ExampleA light wave communication link, operating at a
wavelength of 1500 nm and a bit rate of 1 Gbps, has a receiver consisting of a cascaded optical amplifier, narrow optical filter, and a photodetector. It ideally takes a t least 130 photons/bit to achieve 10-15 bit error rate.
(a) How many photons/bit would it take to achieve the same error rate at 10 Gbps?
(b) At this wavelength, 1 mW of power is carried by 7.5 x 1015 photons/s, what is the received power level for 10-15 bit error rate at 1 Gbps?(c) Same as (b) but at 10 Gbps?
Four-port optical couplersBy definition: 1 2
12
1
1 2
2
1 11
1
out out in
outout
in inout
out out
inout
P P LP
PP
rLP rLP
Pr
rP rP
LPP
r
Four-port optical couplersPower division matrix
1 111 12
2 221 22
11 22
12 21
11 12
1
1
out in
out in
P PC C
P PC C
rLC C
rL
C Cr
C C L
Four-port optical couplersr = 0 C11 = 0, C12 = L
All input power crossover to output 2.
r = ∞ C11 = L, C12 = 0
All input power goes straight through.
0 1
1 0ijC L
1 0
0 1ijC L
Four-port optical couplersr = 1 C11 = C12 = L/2
3-dB coupler or ‘50-50’ coupler.
0.5 0.5
0.5 0.5ijC L
Example For the 4-port fiber optic directional coupler, the network below
uses 8 of these couplers in a unidirectional bus. Assume that the excess loss of each coupler is 1 dB.
(a) If the splitting ratio is 1 for all of the couplers, what is the worst case loss between any Tx and Rx combination in dB?(b) What is the least loss between any Tx and Rx?
Multimode fiber
Rays incident at angle still travel farther but also low average faster ( )
Length bandwidth product is lot greater than one of SI multimode fiber. Useful for telecommunications.
1n n
Multimode fiber
Rays incident at an angle to axis travel further than rays incident parallel to an axis.
Low-length bandwidth product (<100 MHz-km) not widely used in telecommunications.
Single-mode fiber
Only one mode propagates: neglecting dispulsion all incident light arrives at fiber end at the same time.
Length bandwidth product > 100 GHz-km.Much greater bandwidth than any multimode
fiber. suitable for long live intercity applications.
Modes in fibersIt begins with Maxwell’s equations to define a
wave equation.
In an isotropic medium:2 2
22 2
2 2 22
2 2 2
22
02,
n EE
c t
x y z
nn
c
Modes in fibersWe have 3 equations with solution of Ei for
each axis which is not generally independent.Assume that wave travels in z-direction:
Substitute these into a wave equation, it yields
( )( , , , ) ( , ) e
propagation constant
2
i z tE x y z t E x y
Modes in fibers2 2
2 2
0
2 2
2 2
( , ) ( , )
2
2We know .
( , ) ( , )0
E x y E x y
x y
n n
c c
k
E x y E x y
x y
Modes in FibersIf we rewrite a wave equation in scalar, we
get
2 22 2 2
02 2
2 2 2 2
2 2 2 2 2
2 2
0
( , , ) or (propagation in z-direction)
( , ) ( )
1 1From
cos , sin , ,
x y
u un k u
x y
u x y z E E
n x y n r
r rx y r r
x r y r r x y
Modes in FibersSolutions for the last equation are
st
stn
( ) 0, 1, 2,...
Solutions to scalar wave equation for step index fiber:
( ) ;
( , )
( ) Bessel Function of 1 kind of order m.
K ( ) Modified Bessel Function of 1 kind of order
il
illm
m
u r e for l
AJ pr e r a
u r
J x
x
m.
Modes in FibersIt is convenient to define a useful parameter
called ‘V-number’ as
V is dimensionless.V determines
Number of modes.Strength of guiding of guided modes.
2 2V a p s
V
Modes in FibersMode designation LPlm
l = angular dependence of field amplitude eil (l = 0,1,..)
m = number of zeroes in radial function u(r)
Fundamental LP01 mode: no cutoff. It can guide no matter how small r is.u(r,) = u01(r) ….circular symmetric maximum at r
= 0.
Modes in FibersMode Cutoff condition V at cutoff @ m =1,2,3
LP0m l=0 J-1(r)=0 0 3.832 7.016
LP1m l=1 J0(r)=0
LP2m l=2 J1(r)=0
LP01 HE11
LP11 TE01, TM01, HE21
For large V, number of guide modes = V2/2