Optical Communication
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Optical Communication Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Optical Communication (subject code 3163208) as prescribed for ICT · Semester 6 divides the course into 10 units, covering 43 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3163208)Unit 1 Overview of Optical fiber Communications
- Basic network information rates
- Evolution of fiber optic systems
- Elements of an optical fiber transmission link
- Advantages and disadvantages of optical fiber system
Unit 2 Introduction to optical fibers
- Fundamentals of Light Propagation in Optical Fiber
- Numerical aperture
- Multimode Fibers
- Single Mode Fibers
- Step Index and Graded Index (GI) fibers
- Attenuation and Dispersion
Unit 3 Optical Sources
- Light emitting diode (LEDs) - Structures
- Characteristics & Modulation
- Laser Diodes -Modes & threshold condition
- Single mode lasers
Unit 4 Photo detectors
- Principles of operation
- figure of merits of detectors photodiode materials
- photo detector noise
Unit 5 Optical Receiver Operation
- Receiver operation
- Preamplifier types
- receiver performance and sensitivity
- Eye diagrams
- Coherent detection
- Specification of receivers
Unit 6 Transmission Systems
- Point –to-point link –system considerations
- Link power budget and rise time budget methods for design of optical link
- BER calculation
Unit 7 Optical Amplifiers
- Semiconductor optical Amplifier
- Raman Amplifier
- Wideband Optical Amplifiers
- Overview of Optical Components: Subject Code: 3163208 w.e.f
Unit 8 Optical couplers, Tunable sources and Filters, optical MUX/DEMUX,
- Arrayed waveguide grating
- optical add drop multiplexer (OADM)
- optical circulators
- optical cross connects
- wavelength converter
- Mach- Zender Interferometer
Unit 9 Advances in Optical Fiber Systems
- Principles of WDM, DWDM
- Telecommunications & broadband application
- SONET/SDH, MUX, Analog & Digital broadband
- optical switching
Unit 10 Fiber Optical Measurements
- Test equipment
- Set ups for Measurement of Attenuation
- NA and EYE pattern
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