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2022　Opto-electronics

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Academic unit or major
Undergraduate major in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Instructor(s)
Uenohara Hiroyuki  Nishiyama Nobuhiko 
Class Format
Lecture    (Face-to-face)
Media-enhanced courses
Day/Period(Room No.)
Tue1-2(S223)  Fri1-2(S223)  
Group
-
Course number
EEE.S361
Credits
2
Academic year
2022
Offered quarter
4Q
Syllabus updated
2022/5/11
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, and other components, can be acquired.
Students also learn properties of optical fibers and their transmission bandwidth.
Moreover, application of optical technologies to sensing and measurements is covered from the points of systems and used optical devices in this lecture.

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. In optical sensing and measurement technologies, on the other hand, signal processing based on time and frequency domain are utilized. It is useful to learn Class "Optoelectronics" to acquire the application of the fundamental knowledges of electrical and 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 analize the bandwidth limitation of optical fibers
(4) To aquire the knowledges of optical signal modulation / demodulation, and calculate bit error rate
(5) To utilize the concept of mode control on semiconductor lasers
(6) To design the performance limitation of semiconductor lasers
(7) To explain the basic principle of optical sensing and its application to measurement
(8) To explain the characteristics of optical devices used in optical sensing and measurement technologies

Keywords

optical communication systems, optical signal modulation/demodulation, optical fiber, transmission, optical components, optical measurement, optical sensing, LiDAR

Competencies that will be developed

Specialist skills Intercultural skills Communication skills ✔ Critical thinking skills Practical and/or problem-solving skills
✔ ・Applied specialist skills on EEE

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 contents of the classes.

Course schedule/Required learning

  Course schedule Required learning
Class 1 Introduction (Review of communication systems, fundamentals of Optics) Read through Text (Class 1) onT2SCHOLA before lecture Understand principles of communication systems, optics
Class 2 Fundamentals of Optical Waveguide (Optical Fiber, Mode) Read through Text (Class 2) onT2SCHOLA before lecture Explain principles of modes of waveguide, optical fiber
Class 3 Optical Devices (Waveguide-type, polarization, isolator) Read through Text (Class 3) on T2SCHOLA before lecture Understand principles and performance of optical devices using waveguide, and for polarization and isolation
Class 4 Principles of Semiconductor Laser and its Mode Control Read through Text (Class 4) on T2SCHOLA before lecture, and review after it.
Class 5 Modulation and Noise properties of Semiconductor Lasers Read through Text (Class 5) on T2SCHOLA before lecture, and review after it.
Class 6 Fabrication methods of optical devices Read through Text (Class 6) on T2SCHOLA before lecture, and review after it.
Class 7 Practices of Fundamentals of Optical Communication Read through Text (Class 1-6) on T2SCHOLA before lecture, and review after it.
Class 8 Optical Signal Modulation/demodulation (Direct Detection and BER) Read through Text (Class 8) on T2SCHOLA before lecture Understand principles of optical modulation and BER
Class 9 Optical Fiber Dispersion and Transmission Distance Limitation Read through Text (Class 9) on T2SCHOLA before lecture Understand principles of optical fiber dispersion
Class 10 Fundamentals of Optical Communication Systems I (Long Haul) Read through Text (Class 10) on T2SCHOLA before lecture Understand long-haul optical fiber communication systems
Class 11 Fundamentals of Optical Communication Systems II (Metro, Access, Interconnect) Read through Text (Class 11) on T2SCHOLA before lecture Understand optical communicatoin systems in metro, access, interconnection
Class 12 Various Application on Optical measurements Read through Text (Class 12) on T2SCHOLA before lecture, and review after it.
Class 13 Principles of Optical Sensing, Optical Radar Read through Text (Class 13) on T2SCHOLA before lecture, and review after it.
Class 14 Optical Devices for Sensing and Optical Radar Read through Text (Class 14) on T2SCHOLA before lecture, and review after it.
Class 15 Final examination Read through Text (Class 8-14) on T2SCHOLA before lecture, and review after it.

Out-of-Class Study Time (Preparation and Review)

To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.

Textbook(s)

Texts, that the lecturers are made, are used. They are uploaded on T2SCHOLA before each lecture.

Reference books, course materials, etc.

Distribute texts on T2SCHOLA.
Yasuharu Suematsu, and Kenichi Iga, "Fundamentals of optical fiber communication", 5th edition, Ohm-sha, ISBN 978-4-274-22094-4

Assessment criteria and methods

Evaluate the level about how students understand the fundamentals of optical communication systems and component technologies.
In fiscal year 2022, 60% for Class 7 and 15 in total, 40% for practices.

Related courses

  • EEE.E211 ： Electromagnetic Fields and Waves
  • EEE.S301 ： Waveguide Engineering and the Radio Law
  • EEE.D332 ： Optical physics of semiconductors and device applications
  • EEE.S351.L ： Signal System

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.

Contact information (e-mail and phone)    Notice : Please replace from "[at]" to "@"(half-width character).

Hiroyuki Uenohara uenohara.h.aa[at]m.titech.ac.jp
Nobuhiko Nishiyama nishiyama[at]ee.e.titech.ac.jp
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Office hours

(Uenohara, Nishiyama) Please make reservation for interview.

Other

Class 7 and Final examination (Class 15) will be executed in the classroom, as long as it is allowed officially.

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