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2016　Opto-electronics

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Academic unit or major
Undergraduate major in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Instructor(s)
Koyama Fumio  Uenohara Hiroyuki 
Class Format
Lecture     
Media-enhanced courses
Day/Period(Room No.)
Tue7-8(S222)  Fri1-2(S222)  
Group
-
Course number
EEE.S361
Credits
2
Academic year
2016
Offered quarter
4Q
Syllabus updated
2016/4/27
Lecture notes updated
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Language used
Japanese
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Course description and aims

The course provides an overview of optoelectronics, particularly optical fiber communications, and deals with both the function of related components and with system performances.
Basic architectures and designs of optical communication systems can be understood.
In addition, operating principles of optical waveguides, optical fibers, semiconductor lasers, photodetectors, optical amplifiers other components, can be acquired.
Students also learn properties of optical fibers and their transmission bandwidth.
Moreover, knowledge of signal multiplexing and advanced technologies of photonic integration devices are given. In addition, the course provides the knowledge of optical interconnects in data center networks.

The knowledges of optoelectronics are based on fundamentals of semiconductor materials, electromagnetic field analysis for optical fiber properties, and simulations using frequency-domain transfer functions for fiber transmission. It is useful to learn Class "Optoelectronics" to acquire the application of the fundamental knowledges of electronics.

Student learning outcomes

Students can acquire the fundamental skills of wide ranges of the optical fiber communication technologies as follows;

(1) To learn various kinds of optical fiber communication systems
(2) To acquire the knowledges of optical waveguiding
(3) To acquire the knowledges of operating principles of devices and their integration
(4) To analyze the properties of optical fibers
(5) To analize the bandwidth limitation of optical fibers
(6) To aquire the knowledges of optical signal modulation / demodulation

Keywords

optical communication systems, optical signal modulation/demodulation, optical fiber, transmission, optical components, optical interconnection

Competencies that will be developed

✔ Specialist skills Intercultural skills Communication skills Critical thinking skills Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

At the beginning of each class, answers of the practice in the latest class are explained. Next, contents of the class are lectured. Toward the end of the class, the time for the practice is given to students.
Before classes, the texts are uploaded on OCW-i web site. Students should download them, and read them briefly. After classes, they are requested to read the texts for understand the contennts of the classes.

Course schedule/Required learning

  Course schedule Required learning
Class 1 Fundamentals of Optical Communication Read Chapter 1 of the textbook. Read through Text (Class 1) on OCW-i before lecture, and review after it.
Class 2 Various Optical Communication Systems (Long-Haul, Metro, Access, Interconnect) Read through Text (Class 2) on OCW-i before lecture, and review after it.
Class 3 Fundamentals of Optical Waveguiding Phenomena (Transmission, Reflection, etc.) Read Chapter 2 of the textbook. Read through Text (Class 3) on OCW-i before lecture, and review after it.
Class 4 Optical Waveguide (Theory and Devices) Read through Text (Class 4) on OCW-i before lecture, and review after it.
Class 5 Optical Fiber (mode) Read Section 10.1-10.2 of the textbook. Read through Text (Class 5) on OCW-i before lecture, and review after it.
Class 6 Transmission Bandwidth of Optical Fiber Read Section 10.7 of the textbook. Read through Text (Class 6) on OCW-i before lecture, and review after it.
Class 7 Optical Components Read Chapter 8 of the textbook. Read through Text (Class 7) on OCW-i before lecture, and review after it.
Class 8 Practices of Fundamentals of Optical Communication Read through Text (Class 1-7) on OCW-i before lecture, and review after it.
Class 9 Optical Signal Modulation (1） (Intensity Modulation) Read Section 11.2-3 of the textbook. Read through Text (Class 9) on OCW-i before lecture, and review after it.
Class 10 Optical Signal Demodulation (1) (Intensity Modulation/Direct Detection) Read Section 11.2-3 of the textbook. Read through Text (Class 10) on OCW-i before lecture, and review after it.
Class 11 Optical Signal Modulation (2） (Coherent Detection) Read Section 11.4 of the textbook. Read through Text (Class 11) on OCW-i before lecture, and review after it.
Class 12 Optical Signal Demodulation (2) (Coherent Detection) Read Section 11.4 of the textbook. Read through Text (Class 12) on OCW-i before lecture, and review after it.
Class 13 Optical Signal Multiplexing Read Section 11.2-3 of the textbook. Read through Text (Class 13) on OCW-i before lecture, and review after it.
Class 14 Photonic Integration Devices Read Chapter 9 of the textbook. Read through Text (Class 14) on OCW-i before lecture, and review after it.
Class 15 Optical Interconnection / Data Center Network Read through Text (Class 15) on OCW-i before lecture, and review after it.

Textbook(s)

Yasuharu Suematsu, and Kenichi Iga, "Fundamentals of optical fiber communication", Ohm-sha, ISBN 4-274-20198-8

Reference books, course materials, etc.

Distribute texts on OCW-i

Assessment criteria and methods

Evaluate the level about how students understand the fundamentals of optical communication systems and component technologies.
80% for midterm and final examinations, 20% for practices.

Related courses

  • EEE.E211 ： Electromagnetic Fields and Waves
  • EEE.S301 ： Waveguide Engineering and the Radio Law
  • EEE.D361 ： Photonic Devices
  • EEE.D331 ： Optical and Electromagnetic Property in Semiconductors

Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)

Students are requested to complete Fourier and Laplace Transform(EEE.M211), Electromagnetic Wave Theory I(EEE.E201). Or they should have the comparative knowledge level about those theories.

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