The fibers which relax the spectral requirements for optical sources and allow flexible wavelength division multiplying are known as . . . . . . . .
A. Dispersion-flattened single mode fiber
B. Dispersion-enhanced single mode fiber
C. Dispersion-compressed single mode fiber
D. Dispersion-standardized single mode fiber
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Photonic crystal fibers also called as . . . . . . . .
A. Conventional fibers
B. Dotted fibers
C. Stripped fibers
D. Holey fibers
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An optical fiber behaves as a birefringence medium due to differences in . . . . . . . .
A. Effective R-I and core geometry
B. Core-cladding symmetry
C. Transmission/propagation time of waves
D. Refractive indices of glass and silica
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Any amount of stress occurring at the core-cladding interface would be reduced by grading the material composition.
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A single mode fiber has mode field diameter 10.2μm and V = 2.20. What is the core diameter of this fiber?
A. 11.1μm
B. 13.2μm
C. 7.6μm
D. 10.1μm
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The periodic arrangement of cladding air holes in photonic band gap fibers provides for the formation of a photonic band gap in the . . . . . . . .
A. H-plane of fiber
B. E-plane of fiber
C. E-H-plane of fiber
D. Transverse plane of fiber
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A polarization maintaining fiber operates at a wavelength 1.2μm and have a modal birefringence of 1.8* 10-3 . Calculate the period of perturbation.
A. 0.7 seconds
B. 0.6 seconds
C. 0.23 seconds
D. 0.5 seconds
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Which of the following is not related to Kerr effects?
A. Self-phase modulation
B. Cross-phase modulation
C. Four-wave mixing
D. Stimulated Raman Scattering
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A multimode step-index fiber has a core refractive index of 1.5 and relative refractive index difference of 1%. The length of the optical link is 6 km. Estimate the RMS pulse broadening due to intermodal dispersion on the link.
A. 92.6 ns
B. 86.7 ns
C. 69.3 ns
D. 68.32 ns
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In waveguide dispersion, refractive index is independent of . . . . . . . .
A. Bit rate
B. Index difference
C. Velocity of medium
D. Wavelength
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A single mode fiber has refractive indices n1=1.50, n2 = 2.23, core diameter of 8μm , wavelength = 1.5μm cutoff wavelength = 1.214μm . Find the radius of curvature?
A. 12 mm
B. 20 mm
C. 34 mm
D. 36 mm
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0.4 dB/km, 1.4μm, 6μm, 550MHz. Find threshold optical power for stimulated Raman scattering.
A. 1.98 W
B. 1.20 W
C. 1.18 W
D. 0.96 W
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A single mode fiber has a zero dispersion wavelength of 1.21μm and a dispersion slope of 0.08 psnm-2 km-1 . What is the total first order dispersion at wavelength 1.26μm.
A. -2.8psnm-1 km-1
B. -3.76psnm-1 km-1
C. -1.2psnm-1 km-1
D. 2.4psnm-1 km-1
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Linear scattering effects are . . . . . . . . in nature.
A. Elastic
B. Non-Elastic
C. Mechanical
D. Electrical
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For many applications that involve optical fiber transmission, an intensity modulation optical source is not required.
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Which equation is used to calculate MFD?
A. Maxwell's equations
B. Peterman equations
C. Allen Cahn equations
D. Boltzmann's equations
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. . . . . . . . results from a case of nonlinear dispersion compensation in which the nonlinear dispersion compensation in which the nonlinear chirp caused by self-phase modulation balances, postpones, the temporal broadening induced by group velocity delay.
A. Four wave mixing
B. Phase modulation
C. Soliton propagation
D. Raman scattering
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When λ is the optical wavelength in vacuum, k is given by k = λ 2 π . What does k stand for in the
A. Phase propagation constant
B. Dielectric constant
C. Boltzmann's constant
D. Free-space constant
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An alternative modification of the dispersion characteristics of single mode fibers involves achievement of low dispersion gap over the low-loss wavelength region between . . . . . . . .
A. 0.2 and 0.9μm
B. 0.1 and 0.2μm
C. 1.3 and 1.6μm
D. 2 and 3μm
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Digital transmission is more likely to be affected by modal noise.
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