Online Courses Handbook 2003

12850 (v.2) Optical Communication Systems 404

Area:	School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Contact Hours:	5.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	12830 (v.2) Electromagnetics 303 or any previous version AND 12845 (v.2) Communications Engineering 304 or any previous version
Semiconductor optical sources and detectors. Optical receivers - noise modelling and receiver sensitivity, transimpedance and frequency response. Optical fibre amplifiers. Optical fibre propagation, dispersion and attenuation. Optical fibre communications system - power budgeting, loss limited design, dispersion limited design. Passive optical devices. Design of optical communication receivers.