ECE401

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Prerequisite:

Optical Communication and Networks

4.00
ECE305 Digital Communication

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Objectives:
To provide an in depth knowledge on various types of fibers, their transmission characteristics,
geometrical, optical, mechanical characteristics, techniques to compensate transmission
impairments, power launching and coupling schemes.
To describe the construction, working principle and characteristics of LEDs, LASERs, photo
detectors and external modulators to suit the low loss wavelength optical communication system
establishment and also to analyze noise performance at the receiver section.
To introduce the concepts of optical network architecture, routing algorithms and intelligent
optical networks.
Expected Outcome:
1. Demonstrate the transmission, geometrical and optical and mechanical characteristics of
fiber.
2. Choose fiber, optoelectronic components to design, analyze and evaluate various optical
communication systems
3. Establish optical communication systems and integrate it as part of the telecommunication
system to speed up the transmissions.
Unit I
Fibre Optic Systems
Analog and Digital fiber optic systems and associated Sources/Transmitters Optical ModulatorsReceiver -pin Receivers - APD Receivers. Fibers- Non dispersion-Shifted Fiber - DispersionShifted Fiber- Nonzero Dispersion-Shifted Fiber- Link impairment considerations and system
design. Regenerators Optical amplifiers- Optical Amplifiers - Stimulated Emission Spontaneous Emission - Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers - Raman Amplifiers -Semiconductor
Optical Amplifiers -Crosstalk in SOAs.
Unit II
SONET-SDH
Fiber networks evolution as SONET/SDH Multiplexing - SONET/SDH Layers -SONET
Frame Structure -SONET/SDH Physical Layer- Elements of a SONET/SDH Infrastructure Network Survivability - Basic Concepts - Protection in SONET/SDH - Point-to-Point - SelfHealing Rings -Unidirectional Path-Switched Rings - Bidirectional Line-Switched Rings.
Unit III
WDM Light Wave System
WDM -WDM Components -Tunable Optical Filters-Multiplexers and Demultiplexers - Add
Drop Multiplexers - Star Couplers- Wavelength Routers- Optical Cross-Connects - Wavelength
Converters- - WDM Transmitters and receivers - Nonlinear Raman Crosstalk - Stimulated
Brillouin Scattering - Cross-Phase Modulation - Four-Wave Mixing Dispersion -ManagementPrecompensation Schemes- Post compensation Techniques -Fiber Bragg Gratings- Optical
Phase Conjugation- PMD Compensation.
Unit IV
Single Wave Length Systems
Optical Time-Division Multiplexing Bit interleaving-Packet Interleaving- Subcarrier
Multiplexing -Analog SCM Systems- Digital SCM Systems - Code-Division Multiplexing Direct-Sequence Encoding - Spectral Encoding.

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Unit V
All Optical Transport and Access Networks:
The Optical Transport Network - Introduction - OTN Network Layers - FEC in OTN - OTN
Frame Structure - OPU-k - ODU-k - OTU-k-The Optical Channel - Optical Channel Carrier
and Optical Channel Group Non associated Overhead Mapping GFP -frames in OPU-kOTN and DWDM Access WDM Systems The General PON CWDM PON- TDM PONTDM PON Versus WDMPON.
Textbooks
1. Rajiv Ramaswami, Kumar N.Sivarajan, Galen H. Sasaki Optical networks -3rd edition
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers 2010.
2. Ghatak K. Thyagarajan, Introduction to Fiber Optics, Second Edition, Cambridge
University Press, 2002.
Reference Books
1. John M. Senior, Optical fiber communication principles and practice, 3rd edition, PHI,
2009.
2. Govind P.Agrawal, Fiber optic communication system, 3rd edition John Wiley and Sons,
2002.
3. Gerd Keiser, Optical Fiber Communications McGraw-Hill, 4th Edition, 2008.
4. Djafar k.mynbaev and Lowell.l.scheiner, Fiber optic communication Technology, Pearson
education, 2006.
Mode of Evaluation: CAT- I & II, Quizzes, Assignments/ other tests, Term End Examination
ECE401

Optical Communication and Networks Lab

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Design, simulation and analysis of CWDM and DWDM systems.

Dispersion Management-Pre, Post, Pre-Post DCF, Braggs Grating
Analysis of SPM in single wavelength system
Analysis of CPM in Multi- wavelength system
Analysis of FWM in WDM system
Comparison of NRZ, RZ, CRZ and CSRZ modulations.
PMD compensation in optical systems.
Gain Equalization in EDFA for WDM system.
DPSK modulation and Demodulation in optical systems.
Sub carrier Multiplexing and demultiplexing
FTTH system with GEPON access architecture.

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