1. Functional knowledge of the essential photonic devices for optical communications: LEDs and lasers, photodetectors, optical modulators, couplers, circulators, AWG, fibre amplifiers, semiconductor optical amplifiers, optical filters, single-mode fibres, multi-mode fibres and multicore fibres. |
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B4
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C13
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2. Knowledge of the noise models used to characterise the optical transmitter subsystems, optical amplifiers and receivers, and capacity to calculate its impact in terms of the signal to noise ratio and error probability. |
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B4
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C13
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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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B4 B8
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C13
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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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B1 B4
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C13
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8. Knowledge of free-space optical systems and visible light communications. |
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B4 B8
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C13
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