Fiber-Optic Communication Systems and Techniques

Recent years have seen an exponential increase in demand for large bandwidth and high data rate applications. This is fuelled by rapid advances in fiber-optic communications which includes introduction of digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms combined with coherent detection. A thorough grounding in optical fibers and fiber-optic communications is necessary to communication engineers to address future needs of high data rate communications. Fiber-Optic Communication Systems and Techniques provides solid background in wide ranging topics of fiber-optics. The topics covered include modes of optical fibers, impairments in optical fiber channel, lasers and photodiodes, optical amplifiers, WDM components, and digital fiber-optic communications. Several latest advances in DSP for fiber-optic communications is emphasized.
INTENDED AUDIENCE: All UG students interested in fiber optics, optical communications, and digital signal processing algorithms in fiber-optic communications can take this course. Professionals looking to refresh their knowledge on fibers and fiber-optic communications can take this coursePREREQUISITES: Fundamentals of Electromagnetic theory, Principles of Communication Systems, Programming in MatlabINDUSTRY SUPPORT: Sterlite Technologies, Infinera, Comsol India, Matlab, Texas Instruments, Defense labs etc will be interested

COURSE LAYOUT

Week 1 :Electromagnetic nature of light, Uniform plane waves, Boundary conditions
Week 2 : Reflection and transmission of waves at a boundary, Total internal reflection, Ray theory of dielectric slab waveguides, and optical fibers
Week 3 :Modal analysis of slab waveguides
Week 4 :Modal analysis of optical fibers (step and graded index), linearly polarized modes
Week 5 :Attenuation and dispersion in optical fibers, Concepts of spontaneous and stimulated emission of light
Week 6 :Optical sources: Lasers and LEDs
Week 7 : Optical amplifiers, Photodiodes
Week 8 :Noise in photodetectors, WDM optical Components
Week 9 : Analog and digital optical communications, Direct detection receivers
Week 10: Coherent detection, Noises, Comparison of direct and coherent detection
Week 11: DSP algorithms for coherent optical communications
Week 12: Multiplexing techniques in fiber-optic communications