Course No：11120890
Title：Optical Communications：Designs and Operations
Class Hours/Week: 1 - 3 Credit：2.5
Category：Speciality
Prerequisites：Fiber-Optic Communication Technology
Audience：Senior undergraduate students
Teaching manner：Taught in bilingual
Course objectives and basic requirements:
This course aims to provide a practical training in designing and operation of an optical communication system following the study of course “Fiber-Optic Communication Technology”, with an emphasis on construction of new connections of a given network, connection failure protection and fast recovery. The course requires that students gain a basic knowledge in utilizing a commercial system design software, e.g. OptiSystem and learn to apply the software in designing and analysis of typical WDM systems.
Course introduction:
As a following-up course of its prerequisite class “Fiber-optic Communication Technology”, it provides students with a systematic training on design of fiber optic communication systems. The emphasis of the course is placed on construction of WDM systems, a prevailing configuration in modern applications, associated with the system performance evaluation, testing, and experimental measurement for typical examples.
Syllabus and lecture schedule:
Chapter 1 Introduction to design of optical communication systems 2 class hours
1．1． Introduction to System Planning
1．2． System Specifications and Realizing Technologies
1．3． Procedure of System Designs
Chapter 2 Function Modules in Optical Networking Systems 6 class hours
2．1. Tutorial Lessons 1－4
2．2. transmitter, receiver and modulator
2．3. Fiber, LD and PIN Noise
1.4 BER, EDFA
Chapter 3 System Construction and Analysis 2 class hours
Chapter 4 WDM System Construction 3 class hours
Chapter5 Failure Protection and Recovery 2 class hours
Chapter6 Routing 1 class hour
Related teaching sections:
Lab experiments on basic analysis of optical systems will be arranged in accordance with availability of lab resources. Provide a list of topics for system design using design software and follow-up students’ progress.
Test and Grading Criteria：
Open－book Exam
Suggested textbooks or references:
1. Canhui (Sam) Ou, Biswanath Mukherjee. Survivable Optical WDM Networks (Hardcover. Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (Mar 10 2005) ，ISBN: 0387244980
2. OptiSystem Tutorials, 2003, Optiwave Corp.