Pre-Requisite: EC205 and EC305
Contact Hours and Credits: ( 3 -0- 0 ) 3
To expose the students to the basics of signal propagation through optical fibers, fiber impairments, components and devices and system design.
Optical Fibers: Structure, Waveguiding. Step-index and graded index optical fibers. Modal analysis. Classification of modes. Single Mode Fibers.
Pulse dispersion. Material and waveguide dispersion. Polarization Mode Dispersion. Absorption, scattering and bending losses. Dispersion Shifted Fibers, Dispersion Compensating Fibers.
Optical Power Launching and Coupling. Lensing schemes for coupling improvement. Fiber-to-fiber joints. Splicing techniques. Optical fiber connectors.
Optical sources and detectors. Laser fundamentals. Semiconductor Laser basics. LEDs. PIN and Avalanche photodiodes.
Design considerations of fiber optic systems: Analog and digital modulation. Noise in detection process. Bit error rate. Optical receiver operation. Power Budget and Rise time Budget. WDM.
Students are able to