ELEN E6413

• 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