EE 464: Optical Communications

Course  description: 



Optical filters, power couplers/splitters, isolators, circulators, multiplexer, AWG, Bragg gratings, Single and Multi-mode fibers, Absorption and Attenuation, dispersion, polarization and birefringence, Laser; LED; Photodetectors, Modulators. Optical Amplifiers, Wavelength Division Multiplexers/de-multiplexers, Optical Switches, Electro-Optical Switches, Optical Routers, Optical Dispersion Compensators.

Fiber optic Single and multi-wavelength design: Multiplexing/de-multiplexing, point-to-point, Ring topology, Mesh, tree and bus topologies.

 

Pre-requisites: EE 423

 

Textbook:  Optical Fiber Communications, Gerd Keiser, McGraw Hill, Fifth Edition, McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. 2014.

 

References: S.O. Kasap, “Optoelectronics and Photonics Principles and Practices“, Prentice Hall, 2009.

 

 

 

Course Outline

 

 

Week    Deliverables

1&2        Ch1-Overview of Optical Fiber Communications

3, 4&5   Ch2-Optical fibers & Ch3-Attenuation and Dispersion

6&7        Ch4-Optical Sources & Ch6/7 -Photodetectors/Receivers

8&9        Ch8-Digital Links

10&11   Ch10-WDM Concepts and Components

12&13   Ch13-Optical Networks

14&15   Ch14-Performance Measurement and Monitoring

 

 

Evaluation :

15 %      Lab/Home works

15 %      Mini-Project

15 %      First mid-term Exam

15 %      Second mid-term Exam

40 %      Final Exam