AE24 OPTOELECTRONICS & OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS

1. Introduction 5 hours

1.1 Advantages of Optical Fiber Communication.

1.2 Elements of Optical Fiber Communication Link.

I [1]

2. Optical Fibers 16 hours

2.1 Ray Theory.

2.2 Step Index and Graded Index Fibers.

2.3 Propagation in Dielectric wave guides, Modes and Rays.

2.4 Slab Wave guide.

2.5 Numerical Aperture.

2.6 Attenuation.

2.7 Dispersion.

2.8 Modal Noise.

2.9 Polarization.

2.10 Fiber Cables.

2.11 Fiber Splices and Joint losses.

2.12 Connectors.

I [2 (2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.10), 3 (3.1, 3.2)]; II [3, 4, 5]

3. Optical Sources 12 hours

3.1 Basic Concepts.

3.2 Optical Emission from Semiconductor Injection Lasers.

3.3 Multimode and Single Mode Injection Lasers.

3.4 Laser Characteristics.

3.5 LED’s-Structures and Characteristics.

3.6 Coupling.

3.7 Modulation of Lasers and LED’s.

I [4]; II [6, 7]

4. Receiver Noise 12 hours

4.1 Photo Detector Noise.

4.2 p–i-n photodiode.

4.3 Avalanche photo diode.

4.4 Thermal Noise.

4.5 Receiver structures.

4.6 Preamplifiers.

4.7 Receiver Performance calculation.

I [6, 7(7.1, 7.2, 7.3)]; II [8]

5. Fiber Communication Systems 15 hours

5.1 System consideration.

5.2 Link Power budget.

5.3 Rise Time budget.

5.4 Range.

5.5 System Design.

5.6 Line Coding.

5.7 LED and Laser Drive Circuits.

5.8 AGC and Equalization.

5.9 Sub carrier Modulation.

5.10 Coherent Systems.

5.11 Optical TDM.

5.12 Sub Carrier Multiplexing (SCM).

5.13 WDM Network Architectures.

5.14 SONNET/SDH.

I [8 (8.1, 8.2, 9 (9.3), 12 (12.1, 12.2, 12.3)]; II [11 (11.3, 11.9)

Text Books:

I G. Keiser, “Optical Fiber Communications”, McGraw Hill Inc., 2000, 3^rd edition.

II J. Senior, “Optical Fiber Communications”, Prentice-Hall International, 1991