CNA07: Optical Communications & Networks - Winter 2018/2019

• Instructor: Professor Anh T. Pham, pham,

  • Office hours: by appointment @306C

• Volunteered TA: Hoang Le (PhD student of CCL), hoangbkset@gmail.com

• Guest instructors:

  • Hoang Le (PhD student @CCL): Lecture 10

  • Thanh Pham (PhD student @CCL): Lecture 11-12

• Prerequisites: basic knowledge of physics, probability theory would be helpful.

• Lecture meeting: Mon-5/6, Tue-5/6 (except holidays)

• Lecture room: M12

• Course website: http://web-ext.u-aizu.ac.jp/labs/ce-cc/teaching/ocn/

• Course's Gdrive: for course syllabus, handouts, references etc

The aim of this course is to provide students an introduction to optical communication engineering and optical networks. After the course, students are expected to have basic knowledge about the fundamentals of optical communications and networks, including system analysis techniques, architecture, implementation and performance issues, limitations and possibilities of different optical communication technologies.

The course starts with reviews and brief introduction of probability theory and communication engineering. The theory of optical technologies, including components of optical systems and networks, and fundamentals of optical transmission engineering are then discussed. We also discuss about the essential design, architecture and performance issues of optical networks.

• Lecture 1: Introduction

• Lecture 2: Signal, Spectral and Fourier theory

• Lecture 3: Communication engineering review

• Lecture 4: Performance of baseband comm. systems

• Lecture 5: Monte-Carlo Simulation of communication systems

• Lecture 6: Optics and optical fiber channel

• Lecture 7: Light source and photo detectors

• Lecture 8: Signal recovery & noises

• Lecture 9: Optical components

• Lecture 10: Optical communications without fiber: FSO technology

• Lecture 11: Channel capacity and MIMO

• Lecture 12: Ergodic capacity over Fading channels

• Lecture 13: Atmospheric Fading Channel

• Lecture 14: Visible light communications

Detail schedule and handouts: check the couse syllabus

Weekly Homework

• HW submission by hardcopy, at the lecture on the due date.

• Prepare answer using any word processor

• Print double-sided using A4 paper.