OT3OT - Optical Telecommunications
Course specification | ||||
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Course title | Optical Telecommunications | |||
Acronym | OT3OT | |||
Study programme | Electrical Engineering and Computing | |||
Module | Telecommunications and Information Technologies | |||
Type of study | bachelor academic studies | |||
Lecturer (for classes) | ||||
Lecturer/Associate (for practice) | ||||
Lecturer/Associate (for OTC) | ||||
ESPB | 6.0 | Status | mandatory | |
Condition | none | |||
The goal | Introducing the students to the components, systems and techniques of signal transmission in modern optical communication. Familiarizing with the propagation of electromagnetic waves in planar waveguides and optical fibers, dispersion theory and signal attenuation in the fiber, the theory of optical sources and photodetectors, and designing the optical links. | |||
The outcome | Students should understand the principle of operation of the physical layer of modern optical broadband telecommunications networks and be able to design an optical link with intensity modulation and direct detection. The knowledge gives basis for further development regarding the principles of operation of optical networks and components needed for their implementation. | |||
Contents | ||||
Contents of lectures | Evolution of the optical communication systems. Modal theory of planar and circular dielectric waveguides. Effects of dispersion and attenuation. Fiber impulse response. Optical transmitters - laser gain, types of the feedback in lasers, dynamic characteristics. Optical receivers, photodetectors. Noises. The design of transmitters, receivers. Power and bandwidth criterion. Designing the PP link. | |||
Contents of exercises | Auditory exercises: Numerical examples based on lectures. Lab demonstrations: Characterization of the optical fibers, Longitudinal modes in Fabry-Perot laser, Optimization of optical receiver front-end. Computer exercises: Signal degradation in optical fiber and direct modulation of the laser, Optical link length limit. | |||
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Number of hours per week during the semester/trimester/year | ||||
Lectures | Exercises | OTC | Study and Research | Other classes |
3 | 1 | 1 | ||
Methods of teaching | Lectures, auditory exercises, laboratory and computer exercises. | |||
Knowledge score (maximum points 100) | ||||
Pre obligations | Points | Final exam | Points | |
Activites during lectures | 0 | Test paper | 30 | |
Practical lessons | 10 | Oral examination | 0 | |
Projects | 0 | |||
Colloquia | 60 | |||
Seminars | 0 |