EE433 – OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATIONS COURSE OUTLINE
Teaching Staff: Instructors Teaching Assistants
Name Prof. Dr. H. Haldun Göktaş Abdullah Erkam Gündüz
e-mail address goktas@ybu.edu.tr egunduz@ybu.edu.tr
Course Description: EE433 Optical Fiber Communications course is a final year elective course which aims to develop your elementary knowledge of optical fibers. Fiber-optic communication is a method of transmitting information from one place to another by sending pulses of light through an optical fiber.
Grading Policy: Final Midterm Quizzes Take Home Exams
40% 30% 16% 14%
Textbooks: Main textbook: Additional textbooks:
Optical Fiber Communicationas, G. P. Agrawal, J. Wiley, 2010 .
Optical Fiber Communications, Gerd Keiser, McGraw-Hill Higher Education 4/e or 3/e Optical Fiber Communications by John Senior, 3rd Edition, Prentice Hall, 2009.
Take Home Exam Take-home exams are essential part of this course, and due to the nature of these exams, you are expected to work on them by yourself. Observation of any unethical conduct on your submitted work will naturally result in getting zero from the overall Take - Home Exam grading and a disciplinary action will be started. Your work will be collected on the due date in class just before the lecture starts. Late submissions will not be accepted. Attendance Policy: Attendance will be taken regularly at the start of each class. 70% classroom attendance is mandatory. If you fail to attend at least 70% of the classes without a valid excuse, namely a medical report, you will automatically fail from the course. Course Syllabus:
Introduction Optical Fibers -
Geometrical-Optics Description
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Wave Propagation
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Chromatic Dispersion
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Polarization Mode Dispersion
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Dispersion-Induced Limitations
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Fiber Losses
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Nonlinear Optical Effects
Optical Transmitters -
Light-Emitting Diodes
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Semiconductor Lasers
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Control of Longitudinal Modes
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Laser Characteristics
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Transmitter Design
Optical Receivers - Common Photodetectors -
Receiver Design
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Receiver Noise
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Receiver Sensitivity
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Sensitivity Degradation
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Receiver Performance
Optical Amplifiers - Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers
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Raman Amplifiers
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Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers
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System Applications
Multichannel Systems -
WDM Lightwave Systems
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WDM Components
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WDM System Performance Issues
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Time-Division Multiplexing
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Subcarrier Multiplexing
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Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)
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Code-Division Multiplexing
Coherent Lightwave Systems -
Homodyne and heterodyne detection
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Optical hybrids and balanced receivers
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Modulation formats: ASK, FSK, PSK, QAM
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Demodulation schemes
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Polarization diversity
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Polarization multiplexing
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Coherent OFDM systems
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Bi-error rates and receiver sensitivity
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Sensitivity degradation
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System performance
Optical Transmission Enabling Technologies -
Dispersion Management
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Modulation Schemes
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Nonlinearity Management
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Wavelength Conversion
Optical Networks -
LANs
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MANs
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Long-Haul Networks
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Design Guidlines
Office Hours: Haldun GÖKTAŞ: Tuesday 9.30-10.30 and Thursday 11.30-12.30.