Lecture Outline
Outline
- Lecture 1: Introduction to fiber-optic communications
- Telecommunications network architecture
- Review of service demand
- Comparison of transmission media
- Basics of Fiber Propagation
- Lecture 2: Essential building blocks
- Multiwavelength operation
- Optical sources/transmitters
- Optical receivers
- Optical amplifiers
- Optical filters
- Lecture 3: Modulation and demodulation
- Modulation
- Demodulation
- Spectral efficiency
- Error detection and correction
- Lecture 4: Transmission system engineering
- System models
- Power penalties
- Key device impairments
- Wavelength stabilization
- Lecture 5: TDM-based networks
- Plesiochronous digital hierarchy
- Synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH)
- Multiplexing hierarchies
- SDH layers, frame structure and network elements
- Lecture 6: Multiservice optical networks
- Optical IP, MPLS/GMPLS
- Storage area networks
- Optical Ethernet
- OTN standards
- Multiservice provisioning platforms
- Lecture 7: Optical network design
- Optical line terminals and line amplifiers
- Optical add/drop multiplexers, cross-connects and wavelength converters
- Cost trade-offs
- Dimensioning of wavelength-routed networks
- Lecture 8: System test, measurement and simulation
- Link characterization
- T&M equipment
- Systems integration
- T&M cycle
- System simulation
- Lecture 9: Optical network management and survivability
- Network management functions
- Optical layer services and interfacing
- Performance and fault management
- Survivability mechanisms
- Lecture 10: Deployment considerations
- Architectural choices
- Rights-of-way issues
- Metro and access networks, FTTH
- Optical wireless, radio-over-fiber
- Lecture 11: Future directions in optical networking
- Optical packet-switched networks
- Alternative multiplexing techniques
- Advanced coding techniques
- Novel device technologies (e.g. holey fibers, nano-optic devices)
- Lecture 12: Recap
- Overview of previous lectures
- Extended questions and discussions session