Course Catalog 2009-2010 Basic Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Person responsible

Charis Reith, Mircea Guina

Implementations

	Lecture times and places	Target group recommended to
Implementation 1	Per 4, 5 : Monday 16 - 18, SJ212A	International Students Jatko-opiskelijat Signaalinkäsittelyn ja tietoliikennetekniikan koulutusohjelma Teknis-luonnontieteellinen koulutusohjelma

Requirements

Exercises and exam, 4 cr. Optional project/presentation extends course to 5 cr.

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Learning outcomes

Understanding the basic principles of optical communications systems: active and passive components, propagation optical fibers, fiber amplifiers, receiver principles, wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), time division multipexing, design of analogue and digital point-to-point links.

Study material

Type	Name	Author	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability, ...	Examination material	Language
Book	Book Fiber-optic Communication Systems (Third Edition)	Govind P. Agrawal	0-471-21571-6				English
Book	Optical Networks, A Practical Perspective (Third Edition)	Rajiv Ramaswami, Kumar N. Sivarajan, Galen H. Sasaki	978-0-12-374092-2				English

Prerequisites

Correspondence of content

More precise information per implementation

	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
Implementation 1	This course is devoted to learning the main concepts supporting the operation of an optical communications system. It begins with a review of the characteristics of transmitters, optical fibers, passive components, amplifiers, and receivers used in optical communications. The aim of this part of the course is to provide a good understanding of the interplay between the features of various optical components used and the quality of transmission. Once the components level is clarified the lectures will focus on system design issues. Detailed topics included: review of lightwave propagation in optical fibers, dispersion and nonlinear effects, attenuation characteristics, modulation properties of light emitting diodes and laser diodes, advanced sources of short optical pulses, optical amplifiers, receiver design, noise in PIN photodiodes and avalanche photodiodes, techniques to measure the quality of transmission, design of analogue and digital point-to-point links, modulation formats, wavelength division multiplexing, time division multiplexing.	Lectures Excercises Practical works	Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 %

Last modified	07.01.2010
Modifier	Charis Reith