ELE731 Optical Fiber Communications (Offered with ELE531)

[3–0, 3 cr.]

This course covers the waveguiding in optical fibers, fiber losses including attenuation, dispersion and nonlinearities, noise, receiver and transmitter design, link analysis, introduction to erbium-doped amplifiers, and time- and wavelength-division-multiplexed networks.

Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor.