ELE 885: Optical Communication Systems: Winter 2012
Instructor: Xavier N. Fernando, Room
ENG-437, E-mail: fernando
at ryerson.ca
Lecture: Mondays 12-2 PM at ENG LG02 and Wednesdays 10-11 AM at ENG LG05
Tutorial:
Counseling: Fridays 1 - 4 PM
Course Outline
The objective of the course is to provide a fundamental understanding of
optical communication systems. The course starts with brief introduction to
light waves and geometric optics. Then step and graded index optical fibres
that support single and multimode transmission and various dispersion
mechanisms will be covered. Coherent
(LASER) and incoherent (LED) optical sources and modulation techniques will
then be covered. PIN and APD optical receivers and various noise mechanisms
will be then studied. Both analog (CATV, Radio over Fiber) and digital (SONET
or Synchronous Optical Network) transmission technologies will be studied.
Basic optical networks and WDM will be introduced. Students will do design calculation
for a point-to-point optical fiber link and star networks.
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Quiz #1 |
Jan 30 |
10 % |
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Mid-Term Exam. |
February 27 |
35 % |
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Quiz # 2 |
March 21 |
10 % |
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Final Exam |
TBD |
45 % |
Textbook: Gerd
Keiser, 'Optical Fiber Communications' third or fourth edition, McGraw-Hill
(2000)
Course
Notes; PDF files; waves, fiber, optical sources and detector
Visit
the Course Documents Tab in the Blackboard for all the presentation files.
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US Institute for Telecommunications Sciences Glossary Search Engine |
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Reference sites directory on Optical Networks and IP over DWDM |
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Hard Copy Reference
Material
John Senior, `Optical Fiber
Communications' second edition, Prentice Hall (1999)
S. O. Kasap,
'Optoelectronics and Photonics: principles and practices' Prentice Hall (2001)
William B. Jones,
'Introduction to Optical Fiber Communication Systems'
IEEE and OSA, `Journal of
Light wave Technology'
IEEE LEOS, `Photonic Technology Letters'