EC60023: Optical Communication
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| Course name | Optical Communication | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Offered by | Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credits | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| L-T-P | 3-1-0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Semester | Autumn | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pre-requisites: EC21002 and EC31002Introduction to optical communications systems, Brief overview of optical fibres, sources and photodetectors; Optical transmitters: LED driver circuits: saturated transistor and emitter-coupled configurations, Laser driver circuits â mean and peak power control circuits, temperature control circuits; Optical receivers using direct detection: PIN-based receivers, APD-based receivers, Receiver noise processes, Receiver circuits: preamplifiers - Transimpedance and high-input-impedance amplifiers; Digital optical communication links: BER in quantum limit, BER analysis for PIN-based and APD-basedreceivers in presence of shot and thermal noise components, Link design â Power budget and rise-time budget, Line coding schemes; SONET/SDH: Limitations of PDH multiplexing, SONET/SDH layers, SONET/SDH frame structure, SONET/SDH physical layer, Elements of SONET/SDH infrastructure; Analog optical communication links: RIN, SNR analysis and limiting conditions, Multichannel AM and FM, Subcarrier multiplexing; Elements of coherent optical communication systems: Fundamental concepts and requirements for lasers, Frequency alignment and polarization control schemes, PSK, FSK, DPSK generation and demodulation techniques.
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| Day | 8:00-8:55 am | 9:00-9:55 am | 10:00-10:55 am | 11:00-11:55 am | 12:00-12:55 pm | 2:00-2:55 pm | 3:00-3:55 pm | 4:00-4:55 pm | 5:00-5:55 pm | |
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| Friday | F104 | F104 |