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Courses » Fiber-Optic Communication Systems and Techniques

Fiber-Optic Communication Systems and Techniques

ABOUT THE COURSE:

Recent years have seen an exponential increase in demand for large bandwidth and high data rate applications. This is fuelled by rapid advances in fiber-optic communications which includes introduction of digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms combined with coherent detection. A thorough grounding in optical fibers and fiber-optic communications is necessary to communication engineers to address future needs of high data rate communications. Fiber-Optic Communication Systems and Techniques provides solid background in wide ranging topics of fiber-optics. The topics covered include modes of optical fibers, impairments in optical fiber channel, lasers and photodiodes, optical amplifiers, WDM components, and digital fiber-optic communications. Several latest advances in DSP for fiber-optic communications is emphasized.

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Final Exam (in-person, invigilated, currently conducted in India) is mandatory for Certification and has INR Rs. 1100 as exam fee

INTENDED AUDIENCE: All UG students interested in fiber optics, optical communications, and digital signal processing algorithms in fiber-optic communications can take this course. Professionals looking to refresh their knowledge on fibers and fiber-optic communications can take this course

CORE/ELECTIVE: Core course in UG 

UG/PG: UG
May also be taken as PG/Elective

PREREQUISITES: Fundamentals of Electromagnetic theory, Principles of Communication Systems, Programming in Matlab

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: Sterlite Technologies, Infinera, Comsol India, Matlab, Texas Instruments, Defense labs etc will be interested

3178 students have enrolled already!!

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:

  

Dr. Pradeep Kumar K obtained his PhD from the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras working on Quantum Key Distribution in 2009. He has since been at the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur. His research interests include Quantum key distribution, signal processing for coherent optical communications, optical signal processing using nonlinear fibers, and fiber-optic modeling. He has published more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences.

COURSE LAYOUT:

Week 1  :  Electromagnetic nature of light, Uniform plane waves, Boundary conditions
Week 2  :  Reflection and transmission of waves at a boundary, Total internal reflection, Ray theory of dielectric slab waveguides, and optical fibers 
Week 3  :  Modal analysis of slab waveguides
Week 4  :  Modal analysis of optical fibers (step and graded index), linearly polarized modes
Week 5  :  Attenuation and dispersion in optical fibers, Concepts of spontaneous and stimulated emission of light
Week 6  :  Optical sources: Lasers and LEDs
Week 7  :  Optical amplifiers, Photodiodes
Week 8  :  Noise in photodetectors, WDM optical Components
Week 9  :  Analog and digital optical communications, Direct detection receivers
Week 10  :  Coherent detection, Noises, Comparison of direct and coherent detection
Week 11  :  DSP algorithms for coherent optical communications
Week 12  :  Multiplexing techniques in fiber-optic communications

SUGGESTED READING MATERIALS:

Textbook: 

1. Optical Fiber Communications, G. Keiser, Fifth Edition, Tata McGraw Hill

References:

1. Fiber Optic Communications, S. Kumar and M. J. Deen, Wiley
2. Advanced Optical Communications Systems and Networks, I. B. Djordjevic and M. Cvijetic, Wiley
3. Optical Networks: A practical perspective, R. Ramaswamy and K. Sivarajan
Other references will be mentioned during the course.
CERTIFICATION EXAM :
  • The exam is optional for a fee.
  • Date of Exams : October 28, 2018(Sunday)
  • Time of Exams : Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon session: 2pm to 5pm
  • Exam for this course will be available in both morning & afternoon sessions.
  • Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
  • The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published.
CERTIFICATION:
  • Final score will be calculated as : 25% assignment score + 75% final exam score.
  • 25% assignment score is calculated as 25% of average of Best 8 out of 12 assignments.
  • E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam and score greater than or equal to 40% final score. Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Kanpur.It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.