Teaching Objectives of Optical Fiber Communication and Systems
Fiber optical links connect data centers, cities and continents; free-space optical links connect satellites and space vehicles with earth-bound basestations. This course introduces physical layer technologies and modulation as well as detection schemes to communicate across. Optical communication systems are the backbone of today's wordwide communication infrastructure. High-speed internet and Webbased services would be unthinkable without fiber-based optical technology. Data transmission (3F4) and Photonic technology (3B6) are useful but not essential as it is not assumed students will have taken these modules. Canada produces 40% of the worlds optoelectronic products (Nortel, JDS Uniphase, Quebec Photonic Cluster.
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