Advanced Communication Laboratory

Advanced Communication Lab covers three major areas such as Optical Communication, Wireless Communication, and Microwave Engineering. The laboratory is well equipped with Digital Storage Oscilloscopes, Fiber Optic trainer kits, Function Generators, Dual Trace Cathode Ray Oscilloscopes with frequencies up to 30 MHz, Microwave test benches of Klystron and Gunn Source, Optical Power meters, Laser Trainer Kit and Cable Fault Locator. MatLab, GNU Softwares with SDR is available for wireless communication experiments to explore the practical knowledge of UG and PG students.

This course covers the wireless experiments such as the investigation of multipath delay, multipath fading, Doppler effect, channel estimation, OFDM principles, pulse shaping, and matched filters. The microwave experiments to measure impedance, power, VSWR, S parameter of passive components, and active components characteristics. The measurement of optical parameters like numerical aperture, bending loss, propagation loss, and the study of the V-I characteristics of the PIN diode. It also deals with the response of optical fiber communication links in terms of BER, eye diagram analysis.