Basic characteristic of Optical Fiber Waveguides – Ray theory- Acceptance angle, Numerical aperture,skew rays - Electromagnetic Modes in Planar waveguides and Cylindrical Waveguides, Goos-Haenchen shift - Step index and Graded index Fibers- Single Mode and multimode fibers Dispersion in single mode fibers- dispersion induced limitations- dispersion management, Fiber lossesattenuation coefficient, Nonlinear optical effects-SRS, SBS, SPM - modal birefringence and polarization maintaining fibers Measurement Methods in Optical Fibers – attenuation, refractive index profile, numerical aperture pulse dispersion and bandwidth, cutoff wavelength, bending loss, mode field diameter birefringencemeasurements, OTDR Coupled mode theory and applications- coupling equations, degenerate and non-degenerate mode coupling, coupling between optical source to waveguide, fiber to fiber joints, fiber splicing, optical fiber connector between waveguides Optical Fiber Amplifiers- Optical amplification, Erbium doped Fiber Amplifier, Fiber Raman Amplifier,Wide band amplifiers. Optical integrated circuits.

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