DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING

MICROWAVE & OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS LABORATORY

 

COURSE OUTCOMES

CO1:   Identify and demonstrate the working of various microwave components.

CO2:   Demonstrate the charcteristics of directional couplers.

CO3: Analyse the microwave measurement procedures

CO4: Analyse the characteristics of optical sources by conducting experiments and measuring various parameters

CO5: Design and analyze an optical fiber communication link

CO6: Demonstrate the losses of optical fiber links

LIST OF EXPERIMENTS

Microwave Lab (PART – A)

  1. Reflex Klystron Characteristics.
  2. Gunn Diode Characteristics.
  3. Attenuation Measurement.
  4. Directional Coupler Characteristics.
  5. VSWR Measurement.
  6. Impedance Measurement.
  7. Frequency and Wavelength measurements using slotted section.
  8. Measurement of Dielectric constant of a given material

Optical Fiber Lab (PART – B)

  1. Design of Analog Optical link
  2. Characterization of Laser Diode.
  3. Intensity modulation of Laser output through an optical fiber.
  4. Measurement of Numerical Aperture of the given fiber.
  5. Measurement of losses for Analog Optical link.

EXPERIMENTS BEYOND THE SYLLABUS

  1. Study of circulator
  2. Measurement of dielectric constant of a given material.