VII Semester ETE
VISVESVARAYA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, BELAGAVI
B.E: Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering NEP, Outcome Based Education (OBE) and
Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)
(Effective from the academic year 2021 – 22)
Optical Communication and Optical networks-21TC72( Modified
Content)
Course Code 21TC72 CIE Marks 50 Teaching Hours/Week (L: T: P: S) 2:0:0:1 SEE Marks 50
Total Hours of Pedagogy 30 Total Marks 100 Credits 2 Exam Hours 3
Module-1
Optical Fiber Structures:
2.3 Optical Fiber Modes and Configurations,
2.5. Single mode fibers,
2.7 Fiber materials. [Text 1: 2.3 [2.3.1 to 2.3.4], [2.5, 2.7].
Attenuation and Dispersion:
3.1 Attenuation,
3.1.2 Absorption,
3.1.3 Scattering Losses,
3.1.4 Bending loss,
3.2 Signal Dispersion.
3.2.1 Overview of signal dispersion
[Text 1: 3.1[3.1.1,3.1.2,3.1.3,3.1.4] 3.2[3.2.1]
Module-2
Optical Sources and detectors:
4.2 Light Emitting Diode:
4.2.1 LED Structures,
4.2.2 Light source materials,
4.2.3 Quantum efficiency and LED power,
4.3 Laser Diodes (Basics).
4.3.1 Laser diode Modes and Threshold Condition
Photodetectors:
6.1.1 The pin Photodetector,
6.1.2 Avalanche Photodiodes.
WDM Concepts:
10.1 Overview of WDM,
10.1.1Operational Principle of WDM
10.1.2 WDM Standards
10.3 Isolators and Circulators
10.3.1 Optical Isolators
10.3.2 Optical Circulators
[Text1: 4.2 [4.2.1,4.2.2,4.2.3] ,4.3[4.3.1], 6.1[6.1.1,6.1.2], 10.1[10.1.1,10.1.2],
10.3[10.3.1,10.3.2]
Module-3
Introduction to Optical Networks:
1.1 Telecommunication network Architecture,
1.2 services, circuit switching and packet switching,
1.3 optical Networks,
1.7 Transmission basics
1.8 Network evolution.
(Text 2: 1.1,1.2,1.3,1.7[1.7.1,1.7.2,1.7.3), 1.8
Module-4
Transmission System Engineering:
5.1 System model
5.2 Power Penalty
5.3 Transmitter
5.4 Receiver, (Text 2: 5.1,5.2,5.3,5.4,)
Client layers of optical network:
6.1 SONET/SDH,
6.1.1 Multiplexing
6.1.3 SONET/SDH Layers
6.2 Optical transport network
6.2.1 Hierarchy
6.4 Ethernet.
6.4.1 Frame structure
(Text 2: 6.1,6.1.3, 6.2,6.2.1,6.4,6.4.1,)
Module-5
7 WDM Network Elements:
7.1 Optical line terminals,
7.2 optical line amplifiers,
7.3 optical add/drop multiplexers
7.3.1 OADM Architecture
7.4 optical cross connects.
(Text 2: 7.1,7.2,7.3,7.3.1,7.4)
Suggested Learning Resources:
Text Books
1. Gerd Keiser, ‘Optical Fiber Communication’, 5th Edition, McGraw Hill Education (India) Private
Limited, 2016. ISBN:1-25-900687-5.
2. Kumar Sivarajan and Rajiv Ramaswamy, Galen Sasaki, ‘Optical networks: A practical
perspective’, 3rd edition, Morgan Kauffman Publishing, 2010.
Reference Books
1. John M Senior, ‘Optical Fiber Communications, Principles and Practice’, 3rd Edition, Pearson
Education, 2010. ISBN:978-81-317-3266-3
2. Biswajit Mukherjee, ‘Optical Communication Networks’, TMH, 1998.
Optical Communication-Test-2 Questions
M2-Part-B Operational Principle of WDM
1. Explain in brief operational principle and implementation of WDM network with
diagram
2. Explain with neat diagram the working of polarization – independent isolator
M-3-Introduction to Optical Networks:
3. Explain the overview of Public Fiber Network (Terrestrial Network) Architecture with the help of a diagram
4. Distinguish between Circuit Switching and Packet Switching with neat diagram
5. With the help of a neat diagram, explain different multiplexing techniques for increasing the transmission
capacity on an optical fiber
6. Explain about second generation optical network
7. Define the following parameters w.r.to WDM signal transmission: i) Channel Spacing ii) Power spectrum
iii) Bandwidth iv) Spectral efficiency and v) Wavelength standards
8. Explain the evolution of optical fiber transmission system with suitable diagram.
