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Topics Covered:
• Introduction to optical communications (Historical perspective and basic concepts)
• Optical fibers (Geometrical and wave descriptions; loss, dispersion and nonlinear optical limitations)
• Optical transmitters (Semiconductor lasers and their characteristics, laser modulation, LED)
• Optical receivers (Basic concepts; p-n, p-i-n, APD and MSM photodetectors, receiver design and analysis)
• Lightwave systems (Architecture, design guidelines)
• Multi-channel systems (WDM system and components, TDM, CDM)
• A brief review on loss, dispersion and nonlinearity managements (if we have time) |
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References:
• G. P. Agrawal, Fiber Optics Communication Systems, 5th ed., Wiley, 2021.
• G. P. Agrawal,Nonlinear Fiber Optics, 3rd ed., Wiley, 2013.
• R. Ramaswami, K. N. Sivarajan, and G. H. Sasaki, Optical Networks: A Practical Perspective, 3rd ed., Morgan Kaufmann, 2009.
• S. Kumar and M. Jamal Deen, Fiber Optic Communications: Fundamentals and Applications, Wiley, 2014.
• M. Cvijetic and I. B. Djordjevic, Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Artech House, 2013.
• R. Hui, Introduction to Fiber-Optic Communications, Academic Press, 2019. |
