Addis Ababa Institute of Technology

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Communication Engineering Chair

ECEG 4310 – Optics and Optical Communication

October 2013, First Semester

Course Outline

1. Introduction to Fiber Optics Communication

2. Light Sources
a. Criteria for light sources in Optical Communication
b. Semiconductor Light Sources, LEDs, Laser Principles
c. Cavity Confinement
d. Fabry-Perot Laser Diodes
3. Optical Fibers
a. Optical Fibers Structures and Types
b. Fiber Attenuation and Attenuation Limits
c. Light Propagation in Optical Fibers
d. Fiber Dispersion
e. Advanced Optical Fibers
4. Light Detectors
a. Quantum Efficiency and Responsivity
b. Photodiodes, PIN Diodes, Avalanche Photodiodes
c. Advanced Light-Detection Devices
5. Noise in Optical Communication
a. Effects of Noise and Distortion
b. Noise Characterization
c. Shot Noise from PIN Diodes, Thermal Noise, Avalanche Noise in APDs, Relative Intensity,
Noise (RIN) in Laser diodes, Phase Noise from Laser Diodes, Mode Partition Noise
d. Total Noise
e. Intersymbol Interference (ISI) and Jitter
6. Incoherent Detection
7. Time Domain Media Access
a. SDH
b. SONET

References

1. Principles and Applications of Optical Communication, Max Ming-Kang Liu, MaGraw-Hill

Companies Inc., 1996