Introduction to fiber optic communication systems
Basics of optical fibers: loss, dispersion, and nonlinearity
Beam propagation in waveguides and fibers
Beam propagation method
Nonlinear effects in fibers: XPM, FWM and dispersion management.
Polarization effects in optical fibers
Polarization effects in optical communication systems
Raman and Brillouin scattering
Optical transmitters and lasers
Semiconductor lasers
Optical receivers
Optical amplifiers
Modulation formats
Advanced modulation formats and system performance evaluation
System performance evaluation and WDM systems
Introduction to optical networking
Clients of optical networks
Optical Networks
Optical system performance measurements
Optical transport networks
Optical access networks