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Components and System Design For Optical Fiber Communication
Components and System Design For Optical Fiber Communication
Description
Components and system design for optical fiber communication.
Intended audience: Graduate or advanced undergraduate students.
Prerequisite: Instructor permission
Textbook: K. Iizuka, Elements of Photonics, Volume II, Wiley (2002).
Time: T/Th 10:00-11:45 am
Location: Crown 105
Course Instructor: Chris Moylan
223 Jack Baskin Engineering Building
Course Content
Fibers:
Step-index fibers, graded-index fibers.
Fiber modes, single-mode fibers, multimode fibers.
Dispersion, mode coupling, and loss mechanics.
Glass materials, fiber fabrication, and characterization
techniques.
1970 I. Hayashi
Semiconductor Laser
Bells Photophone
1880 - Photophone Receiver
1880 - Photophone
Transmitter
The ordinary manwill find a little difficulty in comprehending how sunbeams are to be used. Does Prof. Bell intend to
connect Boston and Cambridgewith a line of sunbeams hung on telegraph posts, and, if so, what diameter are the
sunbeams to be?will it be necessary to insulate them against the weather?until (the public) sees a man going
through the streets with a coil of No. 12 sunbeams on his shoulder, and suspending them from pole to pole, there will be a
general feeling that there is something about Prof. Bells photophone which places a tremendous strain on human credulity.
New York Times Editorial, 30 August 1880
Progress In Lightwave
Communication Technology
The Internet
From: www.caida.org
Board-to-Board
Optical
Rack -To-Rack
Data
N:1
Mux
D-F/F
Retiming
Laser
Driver
NE7809
p8986
Clock
NE7809
Transmitter
Photo
Detector
NE7809
Chip-to-Chip
Optical
Preamp
PreampMain
Amp
1:N
D-F/F
Decision DeMux
Clock
Recovery
Optical interconnects
Chip to Chip (Unlikely in near future)
Board to Board (>1foot eg. CPU-Memory)
Subsystem-Subsystem (Optics used Low Speed)
Data
Clock
Receiver
Telecommunications
Long Haul (Small Market-High Performance)
LANs (Large Market Lower Performance)
Why fiber?
Installed Fiber in US
UUNET