OPT 428 -- OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
The course is designed to give the student a basic understanding of the optical communication systems while making him aware of the recent technological advances. The following topics are covered: components of an optical communication system, propagation characteristics of optical fibers, lightwave sources such as light-emitting diodes and semiconductor lasers, optical receivers, noise analysis and bit error rate, coherent communication systems, multichannel communication systems, soliton-based communication systems.

References: J. C. Palais, Fiber-Optics Communications, Prentice- Hall; E. E. Bert Basch, Optical-Fiber Transmission, Sams; Agrawal and Dutta, Long-Wavelength Semiconductor Lasers, Van- Nostrand Reinhold; Miller and Kaminow, Optical Fiber Telecommunications II, Academic.