Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Courses>Optical Communication Technology

ECE452 - Optical Communication Technology

Description

Modern photonic devices, principles and applications. Topics include optical waveguides and fibers, attenuation, chromatic and polarization mode dispersion, light emitting diodes, laser diodes, laser noises and reduction techniques, photo detectors, noises, passive optical polarizers, couplers, isolators and circulators, Mach-Zehnder interferometer, fiber Bragg grating, optical filters, optical multiplexer and demultiplexer, arrayed waveguide gratings and Echelle gratings, optical amplifiers, optical microcavities and plasmonic devices. Nonlinear effects and devices.

Units

1.5

Hours: lecture-lab-tutorial

3-1.5-0

Formerly

ELEC 452

Note(s)

  • Credit will be granted for only one of ECE 452, ELEC 452.

Prerequisites

  • Complete all of the following
    • Complete 1 of:
      • ECE320 - Electronic Devices I (1.5)
      • ELEC320 - Electronic Devices I (1.5)
    • Complete 1 of:
      • ECE340 - Applied Electromagnetics and Photonics (1.5)
      • ELEC340 - Applied Electromagnetics and Photonics (1.5)

Course offered by

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Course schedules

Summer timetable available: February 15. Fall and Spring timetables available: May 15.

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