Optical Communication Systems R3a

Overview

Credits points: 6

Workload:
75 hours course attendance; 105 hours self-study

Semester: summer

Language: English

Module type: elective

Module usability: M.Sc. Electrical Communication Engineering, M.Sc. Elektrotechnik

Module duration: one semester

Required qualifications:
Fundamentals in digital and analog communications

Basic knowledge on semiconductor devices (transistor, laser diode, LED, photo diode), material science and optics

Competences to be acquired

Research and development in optical broadband communications

Design of optical communication systems for broadcast and transport

Courses

Content

  • Fundamentals of fibre-optic transmission
  • Fibre-To-The-X (FTTX), all-optical transmission systems
  • Single and multimode fibres, dispersion shifted and dispersion compensating fibres
  • Coherent detection in fibre optics
  • Wavelength division multiplexing
  • Wavelength division multiple access
  • Optical amplifiers and switches
  • Single-mode fibre systems: optical backbones, cable TV, local area networks

Learning outcomes

  • Understanding the fundamentals in optical communication systems
  • Ability to understand design guidelines for optical components to be used in optical communications

Details

  • Lecturer: Axel Bangert and team
  • Teaching method: lecture
  • SWS: 2
  • Credit points: 3
  • Examination: oral exam (30 minutes)
  • Course identifier: FB16-5192

Content

  • Topics in optical communications and optical communication systems

Learning outcomes

  • Understanding the fundamentals in optical communication systems
  • Ability to understand design guidelines for optical components to be used in optical communications

Details

  • Lecturer: Axel Bangert and team
  • Teaching method: seminar
  • SWS: 2
  • Credit points: 2
  • Examination: seminar attendance, presentation
  • Course identifier: FB16-5011

Content

  • Fundamentals of fibre-optic transmission
  • Fibre-To-The-X (FTTX), all-optical transmission systems
  • Single and multimode fibres, dispersion shifted and dispersion compensating fibres
  • Coherent detection in fibre optics
  • Wavelength division multiplexing
  • Wavelength division multiple access
  • Optical amplifiers and switches
  • Single-mode fibre systems: optical backbones, cable TV, local area networks

Learning outcomes

  • Understanding the fundamentals in optical communication systems
  • Ability to understand design guidelines for optical components to be used in optical communications

Details

  • Lecturer: Axel Bangert and team
  • Teaching method: lab training
  • SWS: 1
  • Credit points: 1
  • Examination: lab training attendance and conductance of experiments
  • Course identifier: FB16-4932