Optical Communication Lab

EC431 – COMMUNICATION SYSTEM LAB (OPTICAL & MICROWAVE)

This course aims to:

• To provide practical experience in design, testing, and analysis of few electronic devices and circuits used for microwave and optical communication engineering.

LIST OF EXPERIMENTS:

Optical Experiments: (Minimum Six Experiments are mandatory)

1 Measurement of Numerical Aperture of a fiber, after preparing the fiber ends.
2 Study of losses in Optical fiber
3 Setting up of Fiber optic Digital link.
4 Preparation of a Splice joint and measurement of the splice loss.
5 Power vs Current (P-I) characteristics and measure slope efficiency of Laser Diode.
6 Voltage vs Current (V-I) characteristics of Laser Diode.
7 Power vs Current (P-I) characteristics and measure slope efficiency of LED.
8 Voltage vs Current (V-I) characteristics of LED.
9 Characteristics of Photodiode and measure the responsivity.
10 Characteristics of Avalanche Photo Diode (APD) and measure the responsivity.
11 “Measurement of fiber characteristics, fiber damage and splice loss/connector loss by
OTDR.”