Educational guide 2023_24 Escola de Enxeñaría de Telecomunicación

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
1. Introduction to optical communication systems	1.1. Reasons for optical transmission
2. Foundations of optical communications	2.1. Non-monochromatic propagation in linear optical fibres. 2.2. Basic active devices: lasers, LEDs, photodetectors, optical modulators and doped fibre amplifiers. 2.3. Basic passive devices: couplers, splitters and filters.
3. Advanced optical devices	3.1. Active devices: SOA, fibre lasers and Raman amplifiers. 3.2. Passive devices: AWG, gratings, circulators, plastic fibres and multicore fibres.
4. Non-linear effects in fibres and dispersion management	4.1. Stimulated Raman Scattering 4.2. Stimulated Brillouin Scattering 4.3. Dispersion management
5. Digital systems ETDM	5.1. Introduction 5.2. ETDM systems with optical amplifiers 5.3. Dispersion compensation in ETDM systems
6. Advanced optical systems	6.1. Systems fibre-radio. 6.2. Coherent links and new formats.
7. Optical networks	7.1. Systems WDM and DWDM 7.2. Switching technologies 7.3. Wavelength conversion. 7.4. Security in optical networks
Laboratory exercise 1. Dispersion in multi-mode fibres	Characterisation of both the intermodal and intramodal dispersion on a graded index fibre
Laboratory exercise 2. Spectral characteristics of optical sources and observation of the chirp.	Characterization of various optical sources and chirp observation in an external cavity tunable laser
Laboratory exercise 3. Systems DWDM	Characterisation of DWDM systems working in third telecom window