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Course Catalog 2012-2013
FYS-6706 Optical Communication Systems, 4-5 cr |
Additional information
Suitable for postgraduate studies
Person responsible
Mircea Guina, Ville-Markus Korpijärvi
Lessons
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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 in optical fibers, fiber amplifiers, receiver principles, wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), time division multiplexing, design of analogue and digital point-to-point links.
Evaluation criteria for the course
The exam and exercises comprise the total grade. Weight of the exam is 80% and the exercises 20%.
Assessment scale:
Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course
Study material
| Type | Name | Author | ISBN | URL | Edition, availability, ... | Examination material | Language |
| Book | Fiber-optic Communication Systems (Third Edition) | Govind P. Agrawal | 0-471-21571-6 | English | |||
| Book | Optical Networks. A practical perspective.Thisrd edition | Rajiv Ramaswami | 978-0-12-374092-2 90000 | 2nd edition is also valid but the numbering of pages might be different. | English |
Additional information about prerequisites
No compulsory course pre-requirements. Existing knowledge on lasers, optics and wave propagation can help understand some of the concepts introduced on the course.
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Correspondence of content
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More precise information per implementation
| Implementation | Description | Methods of instruction | Implementation |
| 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. The basic part of the course, containing lectures, exercises and the exam, is worth 4 credit points. The course can be supplemented with an optional seminar worth 1 extra credit point. |
Contact teaching: 50 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 50 % |