Course Description: Fundamentals of fiber and waveguide optics; photonic devices and systems for optical communications technology.

Course Objectives: To provide students with a solid foundation for later studies and research on specific photonic devices and systems.

Course Outline by Topical Areas:

Introduction. Overview of fiber communication technology and its major enabling components (modulators, transmitters, receivers, fibers, and amplifiers).

Electromagnetic theory of optical waveguides. Symmetric and asymmetric slab dielectric waveguides, TE and TM modes, radiation modes; Optical fibers, pulse propagation, group velocity dispersion, modal dispersion, chromatic dispersion, fiber birefringence and polarization, nonlinear effects in fibers.

Numerical methods in photonics. Beam propagation modeling, finite-difference time-domain techniques. Software tools.

Optical coupling in waveguides. Waveguide transitions and junctions, directional coupler, splitters, routers, combiners, integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometers, signal multiplexing & demultiplexing, add-drop components.

Optical transmitters and receivers. Solid-state and semiconductor lasers, Bragg lasers, distributed feedback lasers, VCSELs, fiber lasers, tunable lasers, semiconductor photodetectors, methods of radiation modulation.

Optical amplifiers. Semiconductor optical amplifier, rare-earth doped fiber amplifiers, gain and amplified spontaneous emission modeling, optical noise in amplifiers, Raman amplifiers.

Characterization of Photonic Devices and Systems. Spectrum analyzers, optical spectrum analyzers, optical time-domain reflectometry (OTDR), noise measurement techniques, bit error testing.

Optical Communications Networks. Multichannel communications systems (WDM), optical link design and performance, network topologies, and future research directions (solitons, advanced fibers, optical interconnects).

Course Requirements:

Homework: Weekly assignments

Examinations: One midterm, one final exam

Computer Language(s): None

Computer Facilities: None

Laboratory: None

Project: None

Notes:

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Degree Applicability:

CE[AA]	CH[NA]	CS[AA]	EE[BDE]	EM[E]	ESM[E]	MAT[E]
MBA[NA]	ME[E]	MES[BE]	MSE[E]	SE[NA]	SY[AA]

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NTU Semester Credit Hours: 3
Number of Lecture Hours: 43 (50 minute) lectures
Days Class Meets on Campus: Monday/Wednesday/Friday

Contributing Scholar:
Alan Kost
Optical Sciences Center
University of Arizona
1630 E. University Boulevard, Meinel Bldg.
Tucson, AZ   85721
Phone: 520-626-7596

Fax: 520-621-4358
akost@arizona.edu

Note: Contributing Scholars are responsible for the design, organization, content, and presentation of NTU courses. Online classroom management, student management, and other matters related to academic administration of courses are the responsibility of support "Faculty". Either person is often called "Instructor". To identify and differentiate between these roles, we use the terms "Contributing Scholar" and "Faculty".

Academic/Administrative Contact:  
Ms. Pam Shack
Phone: 520-626-4573
Fax: 520-626-1102
pshack@email.arizona.edu


Prerequisites: OPTI 501, Electromagnetic Waves; OPTI 505R, Diffraction and Interferometry; OPTI 507, Solid-state Optics; OPTI 512R, Introduction to Fourier Optics, or permission of the instructor.

Textbooks: (Order Materials)

1.	Elements of Photonics for Fiber and Integrated Optics - Volulme II, Keigo Lizuka