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| 0512-4602-01 | Introduction to Optical Communications | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 4.0
Course description
Credit Points: 3.5
Prerequisites:Wave transmission and lines; Random Signals and noise.
This course reviews the fundamentals of optical communications systems. It covers principles of optical amplification and the noise accompanying it, optical detection and its statistics, signal propagation through optical fibers in the presence of chromatic dispersion and optical nonlinearities, structure and design principles of multi-channel systems.
Prerequisites:Wave transmission and lines; Random Signals and noise.
This course reviews the fundamentals of optical communications systems. It covers principles of optical amplification and the noise accompanying it, optical detection and its statistics, signal propagation through optical fibers in the presence of chromatic dispersion and optical nonlinearities, structure and design principles of multi-channel systems.