Instructor

Dr. Gautam Das

Office: CB 4027

Phone: 346 7810

Office hours:

Monday: 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. (CB4027)

Wednesday: 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. (Please send me an email)

Text

• Optical Fiber Communications by Gerd Keiser (4th Edition), McGraw Hill.

Reference Text

• Optical Fiber Communications by John M. Senior, Printice Hall, 2nd edition.

Syllabus

• Chapter 1: Overview of optical fiber communications (Two lectures)

• Chapter 2: Optical fibers (Three lectures)

• Chapter 3: Signal degradation in optical fibers (Two lectures)

• Chapter 4: Optical sources (Three lectures)

• Chapter 5: Power launching and coupling (Three lectures)

• Chapter 6 and 7: Detectors and receiver (Three lectures)

• Chapter 8 and 9: Transmission system (Two lectures)

• Chapter 10 to 12: Wavelength division multiplexing and optical networks (Six lectures)

Projects

• Fiber coupler

• Fiber amplifier

• Fiber Bragg grating

• Fiber lasers

• Fiber sensors

• Topic of your interest related to fiber optics

Project references: Books, Journals etc.

Evaluation

• Assignments: 10% (Approximately 8-10 assignments)

• Laboratory work: 10% (Laboratory work is an integral part of this course)

• Midterm exam: 25% (13th February, 2013)

• Project (presentation): 10% (27th March 2013)

• Final Exam: 45%