Optical Communications

Historical Evolution of Optical Communications. The optical fiber as a transmission medium. Fiber types. Linear and nonlinear phenomena in optical fibers. Technologies optical transmitters (LASER / LED), optical amplifiers (EDFA / SOA / Raman), optical filters (type Bragg, AWG, films, etc.), photoreceptors (PIN / Avalanche). Technical compensate dispersion and nonlinearity. Optical link design. Purely Optical Integrated Circuits. Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) and forming shapes. Routing and multiple access in WDM networks. Optical multiplexing CDMA. Metropolitan optical and optical access networks. Wireless Optical Networks indoor and outdoor. Optical Communications shipping and purely visual arteries (optical buses).

Objectives

To familiarize students with basic concepts of visual communications. To offer a coherent presentation of components of optical telecommunication systems. To present the basic architectures of optical networks in backbone network and access

Prerequisites

Diffusion Tel. Signals

Syllabus

Historical Evolution of Optical Communications. The optical fiber as a transmission medium. Fiber types. Linear and nonlinear phenomena in optical fibers. Technologies optical transmitters (LASER / LED), optical amplifiers (EDFA / SOA / Raman), optical filters (type Bragg, AWG, films, etc.), photoreceptors (PIN / Avalanche). Technical compensate dispersion and nonlinearity. Optical link design. Purely Optical Integrated Circuits. Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) and forming shapes. Routing and multiple access in WDM networks. Optical multiplexing CDMA. Metropolitan optical and optical access networks. Wireless Optical Networks indoor and outdoor. Optical Communications shipping and purely visual arteries (optical buses).