18-pr-1050-vl Optical Communications – Components

Instructors: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Sascha Preu

Event type: Lecture

Org-unit: Dept. 18 - Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

Displayed in timetable as: E: VL Opt. Comm.

Subject:

Crediting for:

Hours per week: 3

Language of instruction: Englisch

Min. | Max. participants: - | -

Course Contents:
The lecture discusses the working principle of the most important components of modern telecommunication networks and optical data transmission systems. The starting point will be basic physical principles:
The nature of light

• Wave equation
  
• Polarization
  
• Absorption, transmission, reflection, refraction
  
• Mirrors, HR-/AR coatings
  

• Fiber-optic waveguides
  
• Attenuation, modes, dispersion
  
• Fiber types
  
• Connectors and splices
  
• Dispersion and dispersion compensation
  
• Kerr nonlinearity and self-phase modulation
  

• Optical filters
  
• Wavelength division multiplexers
  
• Magneto-optical effect / optical isolator / circulator
  
• Electro-optic modulator
  

• Basics, concepts, types
  
• Erbium-doped fiber lasers / amplifiers (EDFL / EDFA)
  
• Optical semiconductor laser / amplifier (laser diode)
  

Literature:
Lecture slides
Textbook (M. Cvijetic, I. B. Djordjevic: „Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks“)

Preconditions:
ET 1-4, Physics