ECE401OPTICAL COMMUNICATION AND NETWORKS

LTPC
2002

Version1.1
Aim and Objectives:
The aim and objective of the course is to impart knowledge on optical fibers, sources, detectors and
amplifiers to design point to point optical systems, WDM systems and to understand SONET/SDH
network architectures
OUTCOMES:
1. Ability to design, analyze and evaluate the performance of optical communication systems.
2. Ability to solve the problems arising due to the non linearities of optical fibers.
INTRODUCTION TO FIBER OPTIC WAVEGUIDES
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Light wave generation systems, optical fibers, SI, GI, PCF fibers, modes, absorption- bending lossesDispersion in fibers, limitations due to dispersion, Dispersion shifted and Dispersion flattened fibers.
Post- and Pre- compensation techniques- solitons.
OPTICAL TRANSMITTERS AND RECEIVERS
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Transmitter design, Receiver design using PIN and APD diodes, noise sensitivity and degradation, link
power budget-rise time budget.
LIGHT WAVE SYSTEM

Coherent, homodyne and heterodyne keying formats, BER in synchronous and asynchronous
receivers, -WDM-sparse- dense- WDM-standards-WDM componentsnon linear effectsstimulated Raman stimulated brillouin scattering - self phase modulation - cross phase
modulation-four wave mixing.
AMPLIFIERS
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Basic concepts, Semiconductor laser amplifiers, Raman and Brillouin fiber amplifiers, rare-earth
doped fiber amplifiers-EDFA, pumping phenomenon, LAN and cascaded in-line amplifiers- Amplified
spontaneous emission noise.
OPTICAL NETWORKS
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Network topologies-linear-star architectures-optical interfaces- SDH/SONET protocol architectureline
speeds and signals-SONET rings- FDDI-structure-access protocol operation- Ring initializationmonitoring and error handling physical media physical layer protocol- node structure-overview of
OCDMA- OTDM - optical packet switched networks
TEXT BOOKS:
1. G. Keiser, Optical Fiber Communication Systems, 4th Ed, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2008.
REFERENCES:
1. G.P. Agarwal, Fiber optic communication systems, 2nd Ed, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1997.
2. Franz & Jain, Optical Communication Systems, Narosa Publications, New Delhi, 1995.
3. Franz & Jain, Optical communication, Systems and components, Narosa Publications, New Delhi,
2000.
4. Harry J R Dutton, Understanding optical communications, prentice hall ,1998.
5. John M.Senior, Optical Fiber Communications,3rd Ed, prentice hall,2009

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