ECTS - Optical Communications
Optical Communications (EE539) Course Detail
| Course Name | Course Code | Season | Lecture Hours | Application Hours | Lab Hours | Credit | ECTS |
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| Optical Communications | EE539 | Area Elective | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Pre-requisite Course(s) |
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| N/A |
| Course Language | English |
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| Course Type | Elective Courses |
| Course Level | Natural & Applied Sciences Master's Degree |
| Mode of Delivery | Face To Face |
| Learning and Teaching Strategies | Lecture, Demonstration, Discussion, Question and Answer. |
| Course Lecturer(s) |
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| Course Objectives | • Introduce the components of an optical communications system and to describe typical systems which employ optical techniques. • Enable students to gain theoretical and practical background in both physics and engineering aspects of fiber optic communications, including the fundamental principle of light propagation in optical fibers and waveguides, the critical components of fiber optic networks, and fiber optical network systems. • Select emitters and detectors appropriate to a given communications application. • Specify active and passive optical components for analog and digital links. |
| Course Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Content | Optical fiber structures, waveguiding and fabrication, attenuation, signal distortion, mode coupling, LEDs and LASERs, power launching and coupling, photo detectors, optical receivers, point-to-point links, line coding, coherent optical systems, photonic switching, unguided optical communication systems. |
Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies
| Week | Subjects | Preparation |
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| 1 | Overview of Optical Fiber Communication | Glance this week’s topics from the lecture |
| 2 | Optical Fibers: Structures, Waveguiding | Review last week and Glance this week’s topics from the lecture |
| 3 | Signal Degradation in Optical Fibers | Review last week and Glance this week’s topics from the lecture |
| 4 | Optical Sources | Review last week and Glance this week’s topics from the lecture |
| 5 | Power Launching and Coupling | Review last week and Glance this week’s topics from the lecture |
| 6 | Photodetectors | Review last week and Glance this week’s topics from the lecture |
| 7 | Optical Receiver Operation | Review last week and Glance this week’s topics from the lecture |
| 8 | Optical Receiver Operation | Review last week and Glance this week’s topics from the lecture |
| 9 | Digital Transmission Systems | Review last week and Glance this week’s topics from the lecture |
| 10 | Analog Systems | Review last week and Glance this week’s topics from the lecture |
| 11 | WDM Concepts and Components | Review last week and Glance this week’s topics from the lecture |
| 12 | Optical Amplifiers | Review last week and Glance this week’s topics from the lecture |
| 13 | Optical Networks | Review last week and Glance this week’s topics from the lecture |
| 14 | Measurement Standards, Eye patterns, attenuation, dispersion measurements. | Review last week and Glance this week’s topics from the lecture |
| 15 | Final examination period | Review last week and Glance this week’s topics from the lecture |
| 16 | Final examination period | Review last week and Glance this week’s topics from the lecture |
Sources
| Course Book | 1. Gerd Keiser, 'Optical Fiber Communications' third edition, McGraw-Hill (2000) |
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| Other Sources | 2. Senior, J.M., "Optical Fiber Communications: Principles and Practice", Prentice-Hall, 2nd Edition (1992) |
| 3. Ajoy Ghatak and K. Thyagarajan, “Introduction to Fiber Optics”, Cambridge University Press, New York (1998) |
Evaluation System
| Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance/Participation | - | - |
| Laboratory | - | - |
| Application | - | - |
| Field Work | - | - |
| Special Course Internship | - | - |
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | - | - |
| Homework Assignments | 5 | 25 |
| Presentation | - | - |
| Project | 1 | 20 |
| Report | - | - |
| Seminar | - | - |
| Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury | 2 | 30 |
| Final Exam/Final Jury | 1 | 25 |
| Toplam | 9 | 100 |
| Percentage of Semester Work | |
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| Percentage of Final Work | 100 |
| Total | 100 |
Course Category
| Core Courses | X |
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| Major Area Courses | |
| Supportive Courses | |
| Media and Managment Skills Courses | |
| Transferable Skill Courses |
The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications
| # | Program Qualifications / Competencies | Level of Contribution | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | Ability to apply knowledge on Mathematics, Science and Engineering to advanced systems. | X | ||||
| 2 | Implementing long-term research and development studies in major areas of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. | X | ||||
| 3 | Ability to use modern engineering tools, techniques and facilities in design and other engineering applications. | X | ||||
| 4 | Graduating researchers active on innovation and entrepreneurship. | |||||
| 5 | Ability to report and present research results effectively. | |||||
| 6 | Increasing the performance on accessing information resources and on following recent developments in science and technology. | |||||
| 7 | An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility. | |||||
| 8 | Increasing the performance on effective communications in both Turkish and English. | |||||
| 9 | Increasing the performance on project management. | |||||
| 10 | Ability to work successfully at project teams in interdisciplinary fields. | |||||
ECTS/Workload Table
| Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload |
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| Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
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| Application | |||
| Special Course Internship | |||
| Field Work | |||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 2 | 28 |
| Presentation/Seminar Prepration | |||
| Project | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Report | |||
| Homework Assignments | 5 | 5 | 25 |
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | |||
| Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| Total Workload | 132 | ||