Course Outline
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Instructor |
Dr. X. Fernando Office: ENG437 Phone: (416) 979-5000 x 556077 Email: fernando at ryerson.ca Office Hours: Contact anytime via email |
Prerequisites None
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Course Text: |
Optical Fiber Communications, Gerd Keiser, McGraw-Hill Higher Education 4/e or 3/e |
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Reference Text |
Radio over
Fiber for Wireless Communications, Xavier
Fernando, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2014. |
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Calendar Description |
The objective of the
course is to provide a good understanding of optical communication systems. The course starts with introduction to light wave basics and
geometric optics. Then light wave propagation along step and graded index fibers will be explained. Various dispersion mechanisms that cause ISI are then
covered. Coherent (LASER) and incoherent (LED) optical sources and modulation techniques are studied next. PIN and APD based optical receivers and various noise processes are then
discussed. Students will then learn to do basic design calculation for point-to-point optical fiber links and basic star/bus fiber networks. More
complex fiber optic networks and WDM concept will then be introduced. Fiber-Wireless systems and Visible Light Communications (VLC) will also be briefly discussed. |
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Course Organization |
Lecture: Mondays 8.00 AM - 11.00 AM (EPH 207 or Virtual over Zoom when the campus is closed) 2 Hours of tutorial every other week
(refer to your timetable) Teaching Assistant:
(Syed Ammad Ali Sha
<s10shah@ryerson.ca>) |
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Course Evaluation |
Quiz #1 10% Midterm
exam
35% Quiz
#2 10% Assignments
0% Final
exam
45% Total 100% |
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Examinations |
Midterm
exam is for two hours, closed book. Final
exam, during exam period, three hours, and closed-book (covers Weeks 1-13). |
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Tutorials |
During tutorial hours, students have the chance to clarify
doubts with the Teaching Assistants. The TAs will also solve selected problem
from the six the assignments on the board. |
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Course Content
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Chap. |
Sections |
Hours/Weeks |
Topic, description |
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Introduction, Wave basics
(Ch1, 2) |
1.1-1.3, 2.2 |
3 / 1 |
Overview of Optical Fiber
Communications; Basic Optical Laws and
Definitions (Sec 2.2) |
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Optical Fibers (Ch2) |
2.3.1-2.3.4, 2.4.1-2.4.2,
2.5, 2.6 |
4 .5/2-3 |
Optical fiber modes and configurations
(Sec 2.3) Mode Theory (Sec. 2.41, 2.4.2) Single Mode Fibers (2.5) Graded Index Fibers (2.6) |
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Signal Degradation in
Optical Fibers (Ch3) |
3.1, 3.2, 3.5 |
4.5 /3-4 |
Attenuation (3.1) Wave guide Distortion
(3.2) Design Optimization (3.5) |
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Optical Sources (Ch4) |
4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5 |
6 / 5-6 |
LED (4.2), Laser Diode
(4.3) Linearity (4.4), Noise
(4.5) |
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Photo
detectors and Receivers (Ch6, 7) |
6.1-6.3, 6.7, 7.1, 7.2 |
6 / 7-8 |
Overview of Physical Principles
(6.1) Noise (6.2), Response Time
(6.3) Comparisons (6.7), Digital
Receivers |
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Digital
Transmission Systems (Ch8) |
12.5, 12.7, 12.8, 12.12 |
6 /9-10 |
Point to Point Links
(8.1), Power Budget (8.1.2), Rise Time Limit (8.1.3), Line Coding (8.2) |
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Optical
Networks and WDM (Ch10,
12) |
10.1-2, 12.1-12.4 |
4.5/10-11 |
WDM Concepts and
Components, Optical Networks, SONET, BLSR, UPSR, Broadcast and Select WDM
Networks |
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*Radio
over Fiber (*Ch3) |
3.1-3.6 |
4.5/11-12 |
Fiber wireless systems, losses
and gains, power budget calculations, optical, electrical and cumulative SNRs
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Reference book
Tutorials
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Week |
Title |
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2-3 |
Problem Set – 1: Waves |
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4-5 |
Problem Set -2: The Fiber |
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6-8 |
Problem Set -3: The
Optical Transmitters |
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9-10 |
Problem Set 4: The Optical
Receivers |
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11-12 |
Problem Set - 5: Digital
Network Design and Radio over Fiber |
Important Notes
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2.
Should a student miss an exam or equivalent, with appropriate
documentation, a make-up will be scheduled as soon as possible in the same
semester. Make-ups should cover the same material as the original assessment
but need not be of an identical format. Only if it is not possible to schedule
such a make-up may the weight of the missed work be placed on another single
assessment. This may not cause that exam or assessment to be worth more than
70% of the student’s final grade. If a student misses a scheduled make-up test
or exam, the grade may be distributed over other course assessments even if
that makes the grade on the final exam worth more than 70% of the final grade
in the course.
3.
Students who miss a final exam for a verifiable reason and who cannot be
given a make-up exam prior to the submission of final course grades, must be
given a grade of INC (as outlined in the Grading
Promotion and Academic Standing Policy) and a make-up exam (normally within
2 weeks of the beginning of the next semester) that carries the same weight and
measures the same knowledge, must be scheduled.
4.
Medical or Compassionate documents for the missing of an exam must be submitted
within 3 working days of the exam. Students are responsible for notifying the
instructor that they will be missing an exam as soon as possible.
5.
Requests for accommodation of specific religious or spiritual observance
must be presented to the instructor no later than two weeks prior to the
conflict in question (in the case of final examinations within two weeks of the
release of the examination schedule). In extenuating circumstances this
deadline may be extended. If the dates are not known well in advance because
they are linked to other conditions, requests should be submitted as soon as
possible in advance of the required observance. Given that timely requests will
prevent difficulties with arranging constructive accommodations, students are strongly
encouraged to notify the instructor of an observance accommodation issue within
the first two weeks of classes.
6.
The results of the first test of mid-term test will be returned to
students before the dead line to drop an undergraduate course in good Academic
Standing.
8.
Students are required
to adhere to all relevant University policies including the Student Code of
Academic Conduct (www.ryerson.ca/senate/policies/pol60.pdf) and
Non-Academic Conduct (www.ryerson.ca/senate/policies/pol61.pdf)
9.
Students are required to obtain and maintain a Ryerson Matrix e-mail account
for timely communications between the instructor and the students.
10. Any changes in the course outline, test
dates, marking or evaluation will be discussed in class prior to being
implemented.