Optical Communication
Script
| Literature list Optical Communication | ONT A, B, C, D |
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| ONT A, B, C, D |
| Here is a less nicely formatted version which includes intermediate mathematical steps. | |
| Kap. 4: Laser and Photo diodes | ONT A |
| Current issues in optical fiber communication | ONT A, B, C, D |
| For further reading (not mandatory) | ONT A, B, C, D |
| Appendix vectors (in German) | ONT A, B, C, D |
| Appendix matrices (in German) | ONT A, B, C, D |
| Appendix probability theory and stochasics (in German) | ONT A, B, C, D |
Exam Preparation Exercises
Computer programs (Software)
| Purpose | Program and scripts/subroutines | |
| Calculation of optical slab waveguides | SWL_n10.m, SWL_n12 | ONT A |
| Calculation of cylindrical optical waveguides with single refractive index step | Stufen_LWL_Moden_36.m, Stufen_LWL_Modenberechng_det_1.m, Stufen_LWL_Modenberechng_det_5.m, Stufen_LWL_Moden_35.m | ONT A |
| Calculation of cylindrical optical waveguides | Stufen_LWL_Moden_101.m, Stufen_LWL_Moden_det_102.m, Stufen_LWL_Moden_det_103.m, Stufen_LWL_Moden_104.m, Stufen_LWL_Moden_101.pdf | ONT A |
| Differential group delay profiles | DGD_Profil.M, DGDPROFILE_N14.m, WURM2_N12.M, PMDF1001.M | ONT B |
| ASK and DPSK bit error ratio calculation | oa_ee_fig1_n02.m, oa_ee_fig3_chi2_negbin_ther_n01.m, oa_ee_fig4_chi2_BER_n17.m, fig_chi2_BER_n16_help02.m , chi2_n104.m, oa_ee_fig5_chi2_constBER_n19.m, oa_ee_fig6_chi2_nonideal_ext_n19.m, fig4_DPSK_BER_and_synch_n19.m, fig_DPSK_constBER_n19.m, | ONT C |
Exercises
| Exercise 1 | Reflection and transission at boundaries; Fields in the dielectric slab waveguide (in German) | ONT A |
| Exercise 2 | Jones vectors and matrices | ONT A |
| Exercise 3 | Complex Poynting theorem, losslessness | ONT A |
| Exercise 4 | Dispersion | ONT A |
| Exercise 5 | Gaussian impulse in dispersive medium | ONT A |
| Exercise 6 | Wave propagation in anisotropic media | ONT A |
| Exercise 7 | Optical isolators | ONT A |
| Exercise 8 | Anti-reflection coating, directional coupler, Fabry-Perot interferometer | ONT A |
| Exercise 9 | Dispersion compensation. | ONT A |
| Exercise 10 | Quantum efficiency | ONT A |
| Exercise 11 | Optical pulse generation | ONT A |
| Exercise 12 | Scattering matrices | Repetition |
| Exercise 13 | Noise measurement in optical receiver | ONT A |
| Exercise 14 (in German) | Rausch-Güteziffer | Repetition |
| Exercise 15 | Chirp parameter in Mach-Zehnder modulator | ONT A |
| Exercise 16 | Analog and digital optical transmission | ONT A |
| Exercise 17 | Optical amplifier | ONT C |
| Exercise 18 | More polarizers and retarders | ONT B |
| Exercise 19 (in German) | Polarisationstransformationen | ONT B |
| Exercise 20 | Interference of homogeneous plane waves | ONT A, B, C, D |
| Exercise 21 (in German) | Rayleigh-Streuung | ONT D |
| Exercise 22 (in German) | Laserlinienbreite | ONT C |
| Exercise 23 (in German) | Kontradirektionale Modenkopplung (Gitter), see also GRAT2D_n04.m | ONT B |
| Exercise 24 (in German) | Polarisationsmodendispersion | ONT B |
| Exercise 25 | Polarization evolution of self and cross phase modulation. Solutions: equidistribution_n003.m, pmdf1001.m, SPMXPMpoldependent_n001.m, SPMXPMpoldependent_n011.m | ONT D |
| Exercise 26 | Coupler design. Solution software: coupler004_3x3.m, coupler005_4x4.m | ONT B |
| Exercise 27 | Dielectric slab waveguide | ONT A |
| Exercise 28 | Depolarization | ONT B |
| Exercise 29 | Relaxation oscillation of a directly modulated semiconductor laser | ONT A |
| Exercise 51 | Tiltes multilayer slab | ONT B |
| Exercise 52 | Frequency response of a traveling wave modulator | ONT C |
| Exercise 54 | QPSK signal generation and coding | ONT C |
| Exercise 57 | Interference detection in phase and in quadrature | ONT C |
| Exercise 58 | Polarizers | ONT B |
| Exercise 59 | Laser FM response and chromatic dispersion detection. Once you have solved this look here. | ONT C |
| Exercise 60 | Measurement and extrapolation of Q factor in binary rgenerator; Matlab file | ONT A |
Videos
Exams will be held orally until further notice .