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Unit-1

Assignment
1.What is the principle used in the working of fiber as light guides?
2.What is Goos Hanechen Shift?
3.What is total internal reflection? Explain Snell's law.
4.What do you mean by acceptance angle of optical fiber? Derive an expression for the numerical aperture of
optical fiber
5.A silica optical fiber with core diameter large enough to be considered by ray theory analysis has core
refractive index 1.5 and cladding refractive index of 1.4. Determine critical angle at core cladding interface,
NA for the fiber and acceptance angle.
6.Write down the wavelength region corresponding to first, second and third window.
7. Draw the block Diagram Optical Fiber Communication System. Enlist the advantages of optical
Communication.
8.Differentiate between meridional rays and skew rays.
9. Draw the block diagram for optical fiber communication
10.Determine the refractive index of the core and cladding material of a fiber, if numerical aperture is 0.22
and refractive index difference 0.012.
11.Write short notes on modes in optical fiber guides
12.Difference between group velocity and phase velocity
13.Explain with suitable diagram evanescent field
14. Write expression of acceptance angle for skew rays. An optical fiber has NA=0.344. What is the
acceptance angle for meridional rays? Calculate the acceptance angle for skew rays which change direction
by 100 deg. at each reflection.

15. An optical has a numerical aperture of 0.344.What is the acceptance angle of meridional rays?
Calculate the acceptance angle for skew rays which changes direction by 900 at each reflection.

16. A multi mode step index fiber has a relative refractive index of 1% and core refractive index of 1.5
the number of modes propagating at a wavelength of 1.3 micrometers is 1100. Estimate the diameter of
fiber core.

17.What is the difference between step index and graded index fiber?

18.Howdoes the ray of light propagate through the graded index fiber?

19.Explain mode field diameter and normalized propagation constant.


20. A graded index fiber has a core with parabolic refractive index profile and diameter of
40μm.Numerical aperture of 0.2. Estimate the total number of guided modes for the wavelength of 1μm.

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