1. Functional knowledge of the essential photonic devices for optical communications: LEDs and lasers, photodetectors, optical modulators, couplers, circulators, AWG, fibre amplifiers, semiconductor amplifiers, optical filters, single-mode fibres, multi-mode fibers and multicore fibers. |
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A9
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2. Knowledge of the noise models used to characterize optical transmissive subsystems, such as amplifiers and receivers, and capacity to calculate its impact in terms of the signal to noise ratio and error probability. |
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A6 A13 A31
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4. Knowledge of some advanced systems for fibre transmission: new modulation formats, coherent systems, non-linear systems and dispersion management. |
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A9 A13
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6. Knowledge of the optical network topologies for long distance transmission, metropolitan and regional networks, and access optical networks. |
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A9
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8. Knowledge of free-space optical systems. |
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A9
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