Prerequisites / co-requisites Not applicable

Date, Time and Location of Course Tuesdays 6:00PM - 9:00PM via remote teaching over Zoom and D2L

1.           Instructor Information

Instructor: Xavier N. Fernando, Office: ENG-437, Phone: 416-979-5000 ext. 556077, E-mail: fernando at ryerson.ca,

Counseling: Via email, phone or D2L discussion

Course website http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~courses/ee8114/

2.           Course information

This course is designed to provide a good understanding optical communication systems and networks.

2.1         Course Summary

The course covers both guided wave propagation along single/multimode optical fibers and unguided propagation resulting in optical wireless communications.

2.2                Course objectives and intended learning outcomes

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

2.3                Topics to be covered

2.4                Texts and Reading Lists

Optical Fiber Communications, Gerd Keiser, McGraw-Hill Higher Education 4/e or 3/e

Radio over Fiber for Wireless Communications, Xavier Fernando, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2014

Various publications from IEEE, Society of Photonic and Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)

2.5                Teaching Methodology

Main form of information delivery will be through Zoom teleconferencing. Students will also be researching on a topic of their interest and write a term paper (self-learning).

3.           Expectations / Requirements of the Students

Students will also be researching on a topic of their interest and write a term paper. Students are requested to frequently visit the course website and D2L page to check for the course announcements, postings and to participate in the e-mail discussions.

3.1                Assignments / tests / exams and other work and weighting of each

(Include late submissions penalties, if applicable)

In the event of a medical problem please advise the instructors as soon as possible. Any request for an extension for medical reasons must include an official Ryerson medical certificate within 3 days of the beginning of the illness. All students are expected to take note of the university policies for academic integrity.

3.2         Posting of Grades

(Describe how will grades be posted and be mindful of the confidentiality. Indicate the approximate timeline of providing grades and feedback. E.g. The instructor will aim to provide grades and feedback on assignments within 2 weeks of submission.)

3.3         Course Schedule and Deadlines

Note – Any changes and additions to this schedule will be communicated in class and posted on D2L site.

3.4         Other Expectations and Requirements

The term paper shall confirm the format given at http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~courses/ee8114/formatting.html

Plagiarism: Reproducing other's work or idea without proper citation is defined as plagiarism. If your work found to have plagiarized material, you will get zero marks for the work. If the offence is serious, then it may be reported to the academic council as an academic misconduct.

Note: Significant portion of research is studying what others have done. Then an attempt is made enhance the work by adding more. Therefore, a well-written paper should clearly mention relevant previous work and clarify what is done new.

4.           Variations within a Course

There will be no variations. All the students will follow the same guidelines.

5. University and School of Graduate Studies Academic Policies

For information on academic policies pertaining to issues such as course management, grading practices, and appeals, students are to refer to the Ryerson Senate Policies: Policy 142 – Graduate Admission and Studies, Policy 151 – Graduate Course Management, and Policy 152 – Graduate Student Academic Considerations and Appeals[1]

6.           Student Email Accounts

The University has initiated a policy by which all students are required to have a Ryerson University email account.  Students will be requested to activate their account at the start of the academic year and all notices and announcements of an official nature will be sent via this account.

7.                   Student Accommodations

Students are required to immediately inform their instructors of any situation which arises during the semester, which may have an adverse effect upon their academic performance, and must request any considerations and accommodations according to the relevant policies and well in advance.  Failure to do so will jeopardize any academic appeals.

• Medical certificates – If a student misses the deadline for submitting an assignment, or the date of an exam or other evaluation component because of illness, he or she must immediately inform the instructor and submit a Ryerson Student Medical Certificate AND an Academic Consideration form within 3 working days of the missed date.  Both documents are available at www.ryerson.ca/senate/forms/medical.pdf
• Religious observance – If a student needs accommodation because of religious observance, he or she must submit a Request for Accommodation of Student Religious, Aboriginal and Spiritual Observance AND an Academic Consideration form within the first 2 weeks of the class or, for a final examination, within 2 weeks of the posting of the examination schedule.  If the required absence occurs within the first 2 weeks of classes, or the dates are not known well in advance as they are linked to other conditions, these forms should be submitted with as much lead time as possible in advance of the required absence.  Both documents are available at http://www.ryerson.ca/senate/forms/relobservforminstr.pdf
• Students who need academic accommodation support should register with the Academic Accommodation Support office (formerly called the Access Centre).  Before the first graded work is due, registered students should inform their instructors through an “Accommodation Form for Professors” that they are registered with Academic Accommodation Support and what accommodations are required.

8.                   Academic Integrity and Plagiarism

Ryerson’s Policy 60 - Academic Integrity policy, applies to all students at the University.  The policy and its procedures are triggered in the event that the there is a suspicion that a student has engaged in a form of academic misconduct. 

Forms of academic misconduct include plagiarism, cheating, supplying false information to the University, and other acts.  The most common form of academic misconduct is plagiarism.  Plagiarism is a serious academic offence and penalties can be severe.  In any academic exercise, plagiarism occurs when one offers as one’s own work the words, data, ideas, arguments, calculations, designs or productions of another without appropriate attribution or when one allows one’s work to be copied.

All academic work must be submitted using the citation style approved by the instructor. Students may refer to the Ryerson Library’s list of Citations and Style Guides for more information.

It is assumed that all examinations and work submitted for evaluation and course credit will be the product of individual effort, except in the case of group projects arranged for and approved by the course instructor.  Submitting the same work to more than one course, without instructor approval, is also considered a form of plagiarism. 

Students are advised that suspicions of academic misconduct may be referred to the Academic Integrity Office (AIO).  Students who are found to have committed academic misconduct will have a Disciplinary Notation (DN) placed on their academic record (not on their transcript) and will be assigned one or more of the following penalties:

·       A grade reduction for the work, include a grade of zero for the work.

·       A grade reduction in the course greater than a zero on the work.  (Note that this penalty can only be applied to course components worth 10% or less, that any additional penalty cannot exceed 10% of the final course grade, and that information explaining that such a penalty will be assigned must be included on the course outline.) 

·       An F in the course

·       More serious penalties up to and including expulsion from the University

For more detailed information on these issues, please refer to the full online text for the Ryerson Senate Policy 60: Academic Integrity. For more information on how to avoid academic misconduct situations, for clues and tips, visit the Academic Integrity website.

10.         Date of Issue

The date of issue of this Course outline is 23 August 2021 .