B. Tech.

III EC 6th Sem

Sub: Fiber Optic Communications
ASSIGNMENT III
(OPTICAL SOURCES)

1. A double heterojunction InGaAsP LED emitting at a peak wavelength of 1310nm has

radiative and nonradiative recombination times of 30 and 100ns, respectively. The
drive current is 40mA.find bulk recombination lifetime, internal quantum efficiency,
and internal power.
2. For LED material typical value of refractive index n=3.5,find the external quantum
efficiency.(assuming n1=n2)
3. A double heterojunction InGaAsP LED emitting at a peak wavelength of 870 nm has
radiative and nonradiative recombination times of minority carriers are 50 and 90ns,
respectively. The drive current is 50mA.Determin total carrier lifetime and internal
power.
4. A GaAs LED is farward-biased with a current of 130mA and a voltage of 1.5V.Each
emitted photon possesses energy of 1.43 eV,and the refractive index of GaAs is
3.7.Assuming the internal quantum efficiency of the LED to be 60%,calculate the
external power efficiency.
5. The light output from GaAs LED is coupled into a step index fiber having numerical
aperture of 0.22 and core refractive index of 1.42.Calculate coupling efficiency and
optical power loss in dB, relative to the power emitted from LED, when coupling the
light output into the fiber.
6. For a GaAs plannar LED having refractive index of 3.3,calculate optical power
emmited by the LED when the optical power generated internally is 50mW
7. Determine the number of modes and their frequency of separation in a ruby laser
having peak emission wavelength of 550nm,if the crystal length is 5cm and refractive
index is 1.78.
8. In an InGasP-InP laser diod which has an optical cavity of length 250m,the peak
radiation is at 1550 nm and the refractive index of InGaAsP is 4.0.The optical gain
bandwidth is 2nm.
(a) What is the mode integer q of the peak radiation?
(b) What is the separation between the modes of the cavity?
(c) How many modes are there in the cavity?
9. For an AlGaAs-based heterostructure laser diode having cavity length of 200m,
radiation wavelength of 870 nm,and refractive index of GaAs is about 3.7,calculate
the mode integer q of the peak radiation and the separation between the modes of
cavity. If the optical gain bandwidth is 6nm, how many modes are there within this
bandwidth?
10. For a DFB laser having corrugation period of 220 nm, a grating length of
400m,and the effective refractive index of medium 3.5,calculate the bragg
wavelength assuming first-order grating.