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lwselialiaUNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
CONTINOUS ASSESSMENT
ASSESSMENT 1: MINOR ASSESSMENT
Year Module
EOE3701
Opto-Electronics III
Lecturer: Dr. A.S Qotso Internal moderator: Prof. M. Sumbwanyambe
External moderator: Mr. M.F Grobler Marks: 40
Weight of Assessment: 10% Due Date: 25 April 2025
1.1 An optical fibre has a core refractive index of 1.5 and a cladding refractive
index of 1.45. Estimate the critical angle, numerical aperture and
acceptance angle for the fibre. (8)
1.2 Evaluate the core and cladding refractive indices of an optical fibre with a
numerical aperture of 0.35 and a refractive index difference of 0.01. (4)
1.3 A multimode step index fiber has a numerical aperture of 0.25 and a core
refractive index of 1.45. The material dispersion parameter for the fiber is 225
ps/nm-km which makes material dispersion the totally dominating chromatic
dispersion mechanism. Estimate the total rms pulse broadening per kilometer
when the fiber is used with an LED source with a rms spectral width of 50 nm
and the corresponding bandwidth–length product for the fiber. (8)
1.4 An optical receiver incorporates a high impedance integrating front end
amplifier in parallel with a detector bias resistor of 15 Mohm. The effective
input resistance of the amplifier is 9 Mohm and the total capacitance of the
detector and amplifier is 8 pF (Assume T = 300 K).
1.4.1 Estimate the bandwidth and rms thermal noise current for the high
impedance front end amplifier. (6)
1.4.2 If the high impedance front end amplifier is replaced with a transimpedance
front end amplifier, evaluate the corresponding bandwidth and rms thermal
noise current. The transimpedance amplifier incorporates a 100 kohm
feedback resistor, has an open loop gain of 100 and a capacitance of 8 pF
(the detector bias resistor may be omitted). (6)
1.5 Perform a rise-time budget for a 850 nm, 150 km fibre link designed to
operate at 622 Mbps. The LED transmitter and Si pin-photodiode has rise-
times of 0.1 ns and 0.5 ns respectively. The graded index fibre has
dispersion, D = 18 ps/km-nm. The LED spectral width is 0.25 nm. Can the
system operate with a NRZ signaling format? (8)
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