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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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unspecified
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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- Class attendance
- 39 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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Students will get basic overview on optical networks, with focus on practical use in the Internet, and network infrastructures, possible problems with practical deployment and how to fix it. Part of the course is history of optical communications, summary of passive devices (fibre, multiplexer, compensators of chromatic dispersion) and summary of active devices (optical switches and amplifiers, high speed coherent systems). New topics, presented during prestigious conferences like ECOC and OFC, will also be part of the course. New applications, like accurate time transfer, ultrastable frequency transfer or sensing are also mentioned. Seminars will cover real hands on work with optical components and measurement of parameters. Students will solve real tasks which may happen in real professional life.
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Prerequisites
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1. Introduction and history of optical communications. 2. Optical fibres, types, use. 3. Linear effects and effect on signal transmission. 4. Non linear effects and effect on signal transmission. 5. Important measurements: dispersions, attenuation, optical reflectometry. 6. Passive optical devices. 7. Optical amplification of signals, types of optical amplifiers. 8. High speed modulations, transmitters and receivers. 9. New transceivers (100/200/400 Gigabit Ethernet and OTN). 10. Coherent high speed transmission systems. 11. New non data applications. 12. Quantum optics and new technological trends. Tutorials: 1. Identification of basic elements of optical networks. Fibres, passive devices, active devices. 2. Basic measurements in practical life of optical networks. Attenuation, OTDR. 3. Spectral measurements of different optical transmitters. 4. Composition and measurements of simple optical transmission path.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Students have to pass the exam ?multiple choice' with max points 60. Seminars will be evaluated and maximum points is 40 (10 per one block). Minimum number of points to pass: 50. Maximum points: 100. Marks: A: 100-90 points, B: 89-70, C: 69-50. Failed: 49-0.
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