ELEN E6413

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Lightwave Systems

  • Introduction, review Maxwell's equations, optical waveguides, light propagation in fibers
  • Single mode fiber, basic propagation equations
  • Slowly varying envelope approximation
  • Group velocity dispersion, chirp, higher order dispersion
  • Dispersion compensation techniques, self phase modulation, spectral broadening
  • Applications of SPM, nonlinear optical switching
  • Nonlinear Schrodinger equation, optical solitons
  • Soliton propagation, collisions
  • Four wave mixing
  • Optical amplifiers, SOA, EDFA
  • Cascaded optical amplifiers
  • Optical transmission systems
  • Optically amplified system design and performance
  • Soliton optical communications
  • Gordon-Haus effect, timing jitter
  • WDM optically amplified systems
  • Dispersion in system design, NRZ, soliton signaling
  • Dispersion management and compensation
  • WDM network elements, architectures
  • WDM system experiments, test-beds
  • Long-haul TDM transmission
  • High speed TDM techniques, optical buffering
  • Optical packet switching, OTDM and WDM architectures
  • Optical packet switched networking design challenges