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