Introduction to optical communication: Overview of General communication, advantage of optical communication, Basic characteristic of Optical Fiber Waveguides – Ray theory- Acceptance angle, Numerical aperture, Goos-Haenchen shift. Planar waveguides, Electromagnetic Modes in Planar waveguides and Cylindrical Waveguides, effective index method. Optical fibre and its propagation characteristics.Types of fibers, signal attenuation and losses in fibre, fiber manufacturing. Dispersion, classification and effect of dispersion in information transfer, dispersion management, dispersion shiftened, dispersion flattened, polarization maintaining fibers. Coupling between fibers, coupling losses. 

Optical transmitter: Basic concepts, characteristics of semiconductor injection LASER, LED, VCSEL, DFB Laser, transmitter design

Optical Receiver: Basic concepts, p-n and pin photo detectors, Avalanche photo detectors, MSM photo detector, receiver design, receiver noise, receiver sensitivity, optical amplifier (EDFA, SOA) and its applications .

Optical modulation: Direct and external modulation, electro-optic, electroabsorption, thermooptic effect and modulators. Various modulator configurations. Devices based on light coupling. (Directional coupler, ring resonator), fiber filters, FBG 

Wavelength division multiplexing and demultiplexing (WDM and DWDM): devices for WDM and DWDM, OTDR. Unguided/Free-space optical communication systems. Optical integrated circuits, Shannon limit.

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5. Communication system - B.P Lathi

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