Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Photonic Communications
Intro to Photonics
& to this course
architecture
transport systems
physics Devices/electronics
depth week
Self-contained; not…
Depth
Assumed current knowledge
Knowledge level in August
Phys Elect Sys Arch
1. Superficial X
2. Conversational X*
3. Professional/Collegial X X X
4. Theory & derivations X
5. Full understanding Phys EE Telecom
A smart person knows a lot, but
also knows enough to be aware
of what he doesn’t know.
Course pre/co-requisites
• “EC-1” (T2200) - necessary
– Ohm’s Law, transients (RC), bandwidth, PN
diodes, load lines, decibels (review)
– Can remediate: read “Pre-Reqs” under Syllabus
• EC-2 (T2210) - slight advantage
– Characteristics of transmission lines
– But, will use time domain and direct detection
• Telephone Switching (T2225) - will review
• Physics (even HS) - slight advantage: lenses
Lecture slides
• Loaded onto CourseWeb (BlackBoard)
– Suggest you print out on paper before class
– Bring to class for note-taking
• Read using “slide show”
– I use a lot of “animation”
• Naming convention
– 1st letter: maintain alphabetical order
– 2nd letter: ‘f’ or ‘s’ to identify sub-course
– Middle: abbreviated description
– Number at the end: year – wait for this year’s
• Comments from prev classes on hidden slides
Course procedures
• Per-lecture HW assignments posted on CW/BB
– Relevant reading from texts after class
– Lots of homework, due the following week 30%
• Exceptions in advance – see the grader
• Course assignments 30%
– Lab experiment & 2 short papers
– Project - calculate & plot {link length v bit rate} ×2
• Comprehensive final exam 40%
• Numerical grade = weighted sum {hw, p/p, fx}
– Letter grade by identifying clusters of numeric grades
The Professor
• Dr. Richard A. Thompson
– Full Professor & Chair-emeritus
– See my brief bio on CW/BB
– Primary research area
= photonic switching
• Fall 2004: sabbatical in Physics Dept
Which is the Prof &
• Also VoIP, packet stats, & auto traffic which is the student?
– Office – 717A SIS
• Open hrs Tu PM (or appt via rthompso@pitt.edu) I will discuss
– See me to clarify lectures & concepts some research
results in class
• Grader, open hrs tba in 717
– See grader to argue about HW grades
Left Brain Right Brain
Logical Intuitive
Sequential Random
My Job? Objective Subjective
Rational Holistic
Analytical Synthesizing
• To teach you information Looks at parts Looks at wholes
++ material from
other parts of PLCS
& other sources N Comprehensive Final Exam
Palais’ Book
• *Optical Fiber Communications,
– by Joseph C. Palais
– 5th ed, or map reading & exercises
• Not a “rigorous” text for EE/Physics majors
– But, it’s thorough enough & very “readable”
– Gives us “enough,” especially for 2/3 of a course
• Not well organized We will skip around
• Not a perfect match for us (even for its 2/3)
– I will augment (especially for WDM)
– Skip any material not mentioned on a slide
– Skim some pages Code on slides:
• “Discuss convex lenses – other types (esp, GRIN) in Palais”
• “Focal length, f = f(R1, R2, n) – eqns in Palais”
Optical Power
Decibel Table
Ratio dB Ratio dB
2 3 64 18
4 6 100 20
8 9 128 21
10 +10
2 +3 160 22
10 10 200 23
16 12 256 24
20 13 512 27
32 15 1000 30
1024 30 ?
40 16
Conversion Charts
Exercise with decibels
• Fiber link - 56 km long
– Three segments with 1-dB connectors
– 2-dB coupling loss on each end Distributed
Lumped
– Fiber attenuation = .25 dB/km
• Total loss = .25×56 + 6 = 20 dB
• Transmit laser power = 1 mW = 0 dBm
– Power at receiver = 0dBm - 20dB = -20dBm
– 1% (one photon out of 100) = 10W
?: dBm - dB = dBm
(Pin/mW) x (Pout/Pin) = Pout/mW
Course Assignment
• Review Technical (JLT) paper (3 pp max)
This year: Report on
– Summary, critique, application Rate x Distance experiments.
Each student a different one.
• Write paper about application (5 pp max)
– Describe app, discuss market & technology
– Summary or original work
This year: 5-min presentation
• Project assigned later on Rate x Distance experi-
ments in the last class