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Terminated in academic year 2009/2010

Optoelectronics III

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 454-0322/02
Abbreviation OPT III
Course title Optoelectronics III
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Telecommunications
Course coordinator prof. RNDr. Vladimír Vašinek, CSc.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
Basics of detectors and receivers for optical communications -
Basic requirements on optical detectors, basic principles and fotodetector structures, pfotidiode with PN junction, photovoltaic and photoconductive modes of operation, responsivity of photodiode, responsivity versus wavelength, short and long cutoff wavelength of photodiode, sensitivity of photodiode, photodiode bandwidth, equivalent circuit of a PN photodiode, bandwidth and photodiode digest, PIN photodiode, avalanche photodiodeAPD), MSM detectors

Detectors and receivers for optical communications - advanced description 1
SNR a error rate of receiver, photodiode noise sources, shot noise, thermal noise, dark current, noise 1/f, noise equivalent circuit, total noise figure, normalised noise value, SNR for PIN photodiode, SNR for APD, dependence of SNR on APD amplification, noise equivalent power(NEP), bit error rate (BER), BER and decision threshold, error function(erf), complementary error function (erfc)

Detectors and receivers for optical communications - advanced description 2 -
BER description - Q parameter, relatioship between BER and SNR, BER versus Q parameter, minimum optical power - photodiode sensitivity, minimum number of photons per bit, quantum limit

Receiver units for opticalcommunications
Functional block diagram of optical receiver, input receiver unit, equivalent circuits of an optical front end, quantizer, clock recovery, decision circuit design, datasheets and parameters of optical receivers

Components of fiber optic networks 1
Point to point links, fiber optical networks, TDM and WDM, addúdrop problems, repeters and amplifiers in optical networks and signal amplifiers, passive and active elements of fiber optical networks, transceivers for fiber optic networks, transmitter requirements in WDM networks, tunable lasers, receivers for optical networks, receiver requirements in WDM networks, amplifiers in optical networks, functional types of optical amplifiers, semiconductor optical amplifiers(SOA), SOA advantages and disadvantages

Components of fiber optic networks 2
Fabry-Perot amplifier(FPA), travelling-wave amplifier(TWA), Gainf of FPA, gain of TWA, gain saturation, FPA bandwidth, TWA bandwidth, crosstalk, polarozation dependent gain, noise in optical amplifiers, amplified spontaneous emission ASE, datasheets and parameters of optical amplifiers


Components of fiber optic networks 3
Erbium doped fiber amplifiers (EDFA), principle of operation, energy band structure, amplifier pumping, C-band and L-band, gain and noise in EDFAs, EDFA components, splicing of erbium-doped fibers, ways to reduce splicing loss, pump laser diodes, datasheets and parameters of EDFAs, other types of optical networks amplifiers

Passive components of fiber optic networks 1
Fused biconical tapers and couplers, port configurations of couplers, characteristics of a WDM coupler, datasheets parameters of couplers, basics of WDM coupler theory, coupling length, phase mismatch, WDM multiplexers and demultiplexers, broadband narrowband WDM MUX/DEMUX

Passive components of fiber optic networks 2
Mux/Dmux, WDM waveguide gratings, WDM diffrection gratings, Fiber Bragg grating (FBG), WDM MUX/DEMUX applications, Add/Drop MUX/DEMUX and routers, optical filters, thin-film filters, tunable filters, acoustooptical filters, optical isolators, optical circulator, attenuators, variable attenuator, datasheet parameters, optical switches and functional modules, wavelength converters

Fiber optic networks
Telephone networks, data networks, access networks, transport networks, multiplexing hierarchy in telecommunication networks, metropolitan networks, synchronous and asynchronous network, modulation and optical network multiplex, cable TV networks, place of optical networks in OSI model, coherent communication systems

Fiberless optical networks
Atmosphere as a transmission media, phenomena limiting range and bit rate, directional and diffused networks, sources and detectors for fiberless networks, principles of design for fiberless networks


Exercises:








Calculation of the sensitivity of photodiodes, quiz

Calculation of SNR and BER





Laboratories:









Measurement of VA characteristics of LD and LED destination and
bandwidth banned energy
Measurement P / I characteristics of LED and LD and the temperature
dependence
Measurement of polarisation state and the LED lights LD
The measurement of light distribution in space and the impact of
obstacles to the distribution
Measurement: SM fibre OTDR metro

Measurement ratio of decay and insertion of optical attenuation thread
detention of members
Measurement of insertion of optical attenuation thread isolator
Measurement of optical amplifiers thread
Studying the properties of EDFA
Temperature Mach-thread-optical interferometer Mach-Zehnders
interferomotters
Measurement of the spectral characteristics of LED and LD for different
currents

Measurement shift maximum wavelength LD with the current budicím



Literature

Senior,J.M.: Optical fiber communications - principles and practise. Prentice Hall Inc., 2. vydání, 1992, ISBN 0-13-635426-2 ; Ghatak,A.K., Thyagarajan,K.: Introduction to fiber optics. Cambridge University Press, 1.vydání, 1998, ISBN 0-521-577853; Agrawal,G.P.: Fiber optic communication systems. J.Wiley and Sons, 1. vydání, 1992, ISBN 0-471-54286-5

Advised literature

No advised literature has been specified for this subject.