Course No：11188210
Title： Laboratory Practices of Optical communications
Class Hours: Full time for 3 weeks Credit: 3
Category：Specialty
Prerequisites: Optical electronics, Principle and interface technology of microprocessors, Optical communication technology
Audience：Undergraduates
Teaching manner： Practice, training
Course objectives and basic requirements:
The purpose of this course is to help the students acquire basic knowledge of the principles and practice of optical communications, and develop skills used in modern optical communication engineering. Upon completing the course, the students will understand characteristics of various equipments and components, such as light sources, fibers, and light transmitters and receivers; be able to test and analyze these components, and set them up into a basic optical communication system.
Course introduction:
This course is a laboratory-oriented technical course for opto-electrical engineering students. Through laboratory students will get learning experiences that enable them to acquire more knowledge and skills in modern optical communication engineering, test and analyze optical components, analyze and design simple optical communication system, know and grasp some important test equipments, and acquire teamwork skills for working effectively in groups.
Syllabus and lecture schedule:
1. Initial mobilization, visit and patch up weak points in the knowledge base of the students 5 days
1) Introduce the total arrangement and matters need attention
2) Make some speeches by engineers from well-known companies in the optical communication field
3) Visit well-known optical communication companies outside campus
4) Patch up weak points in the knowledge of the base of the students
2. Training on optical communication 5 days
1) Characteristic test of optical passive device
2) Time-domain characteristic test of optical transmitter and receiver
3) Optical fiber link test with OTDR
4) Frequency-domain characteristic test with phasor network analyzer
5) Characteristic test of EDFA
3. Knowledge of light sourses 2.5 days
1) Know the classifications, characteristics, luminous principles, basic natural parameters and suitable applications of the light source
2) Spectral character test of the light source with grating spectrometer
3) Optics flux and luminous efficiency test of the light source with integrating sephere
4. Package experiment of LEDs 2.5 days
Related teaching sections:
There are three full weeks in the short semester, 15 days in total.
Test and Grading Criteria：
Writing report
Suggested textbooks or references:
Textbook: “Instruction of composite training for undergraduate students”, self-edited.