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Communication Systems Lab Guide

The document describes the Communication Systems Lab course EC431 offered in 2016. The course is a 0-0-3-1 lab that provides hands-on experience designing, testing, and analyzing electronic devices and circuits for microwave and optical communication. The lab includes a minimum of six experiments for microwave topics like Gunn diode characteristics and six experiments for optical topics like measuring optical fiber numerical aperture.

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Communication Systems Lab Guide

The document describes the Communication Systems Lab course EC431 offered in 2016. The course is a 0-0-3-1 lab that provides hands-on experience designing, testing, and analyzing electronic devices and circuits for microwave and optical communication. The lab includes a minimum of six experiments for microwave topics like Gunn diode characteristics and six experiments for optical topics like measuring optical fiber numerical aperture.

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COURSE YEAR OF

CODE COURSE NAME L-T-P-C INTRODUCTION


COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS LAB
EC431 (OPTICAL & MICROWAVE) 0-0-3-1 2016
Prerequisite: EC403 Microwave & Radar Engineering, EC405 Optical Communication
Course objectives:
 To provide practical experience in design, testing, and analysis of few electronic devices
and circuits used for microwave and optical communication engineering.
List of Experiments
Microwave Experiments: (Minimum Six experiments are mandatory)
1. GUNN diode characteristics.
2. Reflex Klystron Mode Characteristics.
3. VSWR and Frequency measurement.
4. Verify the relation between Guide wave length, free space wave length and cut off wave
length for rectangular wave guide.
5. Measurement of E-plane and H-plane characteristics.
6. Directional Coupler Characteristics.
7. Unknown load impedance measurement using smith chart and verification using
transmission line equation.
8. Measurement of dielectric constant for given solid dielectric cell.
9. Antenna Pattern Measurement.
10. Study of Vector Network Analyser

Optical Experiments: (Minimum Six Experiments are mandatory)


1. Measurement of Numerical Aperture of a fiber, after preparing the fiber ends.
2. Study of losses in Optical fiber
3. Setting up of Fiber optic Digital link.
4. Preparation of a Splice joint and measurement of the splice loss.
5. Power vs Current (P-I) characteristics and measure slope efficiency of Laser Diode.
6. Voltage vs Current (V-I) characteristics of Laser Diode.
7. Power vs Current (P-I) characteristics and measure slope efficiency of LED.
8. Voltage vs Current (V-I) characteristics of LED.
9. Characteristics of Photodiode and measure the responsivity.
10. Characteristics of Avalanche Photo Diode (APD) and measure the responsivity.
11. Measurement of fiber characteristics, fiber damage and splice loss/connector loss by
OTDR.

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