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Syllabus: Optical Communication Systems and Networks

This document provides a syllabus for an Optical Communication Systems and Networks course. The course is an optional 6 ECTS credits subject offered during the second semester to Telecommunications Engineering students. It will cover optical communication systems, including intensity modulation and direct detection systems, coherent systems, and digital modulation formats. It will also cover optical networks, including architectures, devices, WDM network design, protection and restoration, and control and management. The syllabus lists the topics to be covered in each of the two parts. Prerequisites and resources are also outlined, including lecture notes, assignments, and a subject webpage. Recommended textbooks are provided.

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Syllabus: Optical Communication Systems and Networks

This document provides a syllabus for an Optical Communication Systems and Networks course. The course is an optional 6 ECTS credits subject offered during the second semester to Telecommunications Engineering students. It will cover optical communication systems, including intensity modulation and direct detection systems, coherent systems, and digital modulation formats. It will also cover optical networks, including architectures, devices, WDM network design, protection and restoration, and control and management. The syllabus lists the topics to be covered in each of the two parts. Prerequisites and resources are also outlined, including lecture notes, assignments, and a subject webpage. Recommended textbooks are provided.

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Syllabus

Optical Communication Systems and


Networks
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Description
Course: Optical communication systems and networks

Grade: Telecommunications Engineering


Polytechnic School of Elche

Field of knowledge: Signal Theory and Communications

Grade: 5
Semester: 2
Type of subject: optional
ECTS credits: 6
Theory sessions: 1,5
Practice/lab sessions : 4,5

Timetable:
Tuesday: 12:30 – 14:30
Thursday: 8:30 – 10:30

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Information
 Prerequisites

– It would be desirable students have knowlegde of electric fields, magnetic


fields, conductors and dielectrics, electromagnetic waves, and the nature of
light.
– Particularly, basic concepts of Optical Communications such as attenuation,
dispersion, light propagation…

 Lecture and assignments notes will be available in the “Optical Communication


System and Networks” web page (it is accessed through your personal web page)

 The subject webpage presents a “virtual notice-board” where notices, warnings,


results are posted (Ex: assignmet results, class room changes, lecture changes…)

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Syllabus
PART 1: OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Digital optical Systems
1.2.1. Intensity Modulation and Direct Detection Systems (IM/DD)
1.2.2. Coherent Systems
1.2.3. Digital modulation formats
1.3. Single-channel Systems: Design parameters
1.3.1. Power Budget
1.3.2. Time Budget
1.4. Multichannel Systems
1.4.1. Electrical Time Domain Multiplexing
1.4.2. Optical Time Domain Multiplexing
1.4.3. Subcarrier Multiplexing
1.4.4. Wavelength Division Multiplexing

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Syllabus
PART 2: OPTICAL NETWORKS
2.1. Introduction
2.1.1. Architecture. Client layers of
optical networks.
2.2. Optical devices for optical networking.
2.2. WDM networks design.
2.4. Protection and restoration in WDM networks
2.5. Control and management in WDM networks
2.6. Optical networks classification
2.6.1. Long distance and high capacity networks
2.6.2. Metropolitan and regional networks
2.6.3. Access Networks

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Texts
BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY
 “Optical Networks”, Rajiv Ramaswami, Kumar Sivarajan (Ed. Kaufmann).
 “Optical Fiber Telecommunications”, Ivan Kaminow (Ed.Academic Press Elsevier)
 “Fiber Optic Communications Systems”. G. Agrawal. (Ed. Wiley).
 “Hybrid Fiber Optic/Coaxial (HFC) Networks”. Ernest Tunmann.
 “Sistemas de Comunicaciones Ópticas”, D.Pastor,F.Ramos,J.Capmany (Ed.UPV)
 “Redes Ópticas”, JoséCapmany, Beatriz Ortega (Ed.UPV)

EXTENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY
 “Fundamentos de comunicaciones ópticas”, J. Campmany, F. J. Fraile-Peláez y J. Martí
(Ed.Síntesis)
 “Optical fiber communication”, J. M. Senior (Ed. Prentice Hall)
 “Optical fiber communications”, G. Keiser (Ed. McGaw-Hill)
 “Introduction to fiber optics”, A. Ghatak y K. Thyagarajan (Ed. Cambridge University Press)
 “Fundamentals of photonics”, B. E. Saleh y M. C. Teich (Ed. Wiley Interscience)
 Problemas de comunicaciones ópticas. J. Capmany. (Ed. UPV)
 “Digital Óptical Communications”, Nguyen Binh (Ed.CRC Press)

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