ENE 623/EIE 696 Optical Communication

1. ENE 623/EIE 696 Optical Communication Lecture 3

2. Example 1 • A 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?

3. Example 1 • Soln

4. Example 2 • A 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 at 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?

5. Example 2 • Soln

6. Four-port optical couplers • By definition:

7. Four-port optical couplers • Power division matrix where Cij is called “incoherent additional input amplitude.

8. Four-port optical couplers • r = 0  C11 = 0, C12 = L • All input power crossover to output 2. • r = ∞ C11 = L, C12 = 0 • All input power goes straight through.

9. Four-port optical couplers • r = 1  C11 = C12 = L/2 • 3-dB coupler or ‘50-50’ coupler.

10. Example 3 • 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?

11. Example 3 • Soln

12. Multimode fiber (SI 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.

13. Multimode fiber (GRIN fiber) • Rays incident at angle to the axis travel farther but also low average index ( ) • Length bandwidth product is lot greater than one of SI multimode fiber.  Useful for telecommunications.

14. 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.

15. Modes in fibers

16. Modes in fibers • It begins with Maxwell’s equations to define a wave equation. • In an isotropic medium:

17. Modes in fibers • We 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

18. Modes in fibers

19. Modes in fibers • For guided mode: n2 < neff < n1 • For radiation mode: neff < n2

20. Modes in Fibers • If we rewrite a wave equation in scalar, we get

21. Modes in Fibers • Solutions for the last equation are

22. Modes in Fibers

23. Modes in Fibers • It 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.

24. Modes in Fibers

25. Modes in Fibers • Mode 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.

26. Modes in Fibers • Two mode fiber guide LP01 and LP11 modes:

27. Modes in Fibers LP01 HE11 LP11  TE01, TM01, HE21 For large V, number of guide modes = V2/2

28. Example 4 • Find a core diameter for a single-mode fiber with λ=1330 nm.