Signal Propagation in Optical Waveguides

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Department of Electromagnetic Field

Synopsis:

Physical fundamentals of guiding of waves, waves in dielectric waveguides, plane optical waveguide, fiber optical waveguide, mode spectrum, attenuation and dispersion, transmitting characteristics, transmitting of analog signal, transmitting of digital signal, signal analysis, professional software, nonlinear phenomena in optical fibers, optical soliton.

Requirements:

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Physical fundamentals of guiding of waves

2. Waves in dielectric waveguides

3. Planar optical waveguide

4. Fiber optical waveguide

5. Mode spectrum

6. Attenuation and dispersion

7. Transmission capacity, bandwidth

8. Transmitting characteristics of the optical fibers

9. Transmitting of the analog signal

10. Transmitting of the digital signal

11. Signal analysis

12. Professional software for propagation analysis

13. Nonlinear phenomena in optical fibers

14. Optical soliton

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Recapitulation of the knowledge's - optics and the field theory

2. Solving of the optical guides - methods of the geometrical optics

3. Solving of the optical guides - methods of the wave optics

4. The homogeneous planar waveguide

5. The independent solution of the example - planar optical waveguide

6. The examples of the solution of the unhomogeneous optical waveguides

7. The computation of the parameters of the fiber waveguide

8. The computation of the parameters of the fibers SI and GRIN

9. The computer modeling of the digital signal propagation

10. Laboratory - measurements of the transmission system

11. Solving of the optical systems - Jones matrix

12. Computation with special software SCOPE

13. The work with the special software - BPM method, ray tracing method

14. Modeling of the optical solitons

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Study materials:

[1] Jones, B.W.: Optical fiber communication systems. Sounders Publ., 1988

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