DWDM – Advanced
- Introduction
- Advantages and disadvantages of optical transmission
- History of optical transmission
- Wave Propagation through Fibers: Linear Regime
- Types of fiber
- Attenuation and dispersion
- More on Wave Propagation through Fibers: Non-Linear Regimes
- Chromatic dispersion
- Polarization mode dispersion
- Pulse dispersion
- Effective length/area
- Brillouiin/Raman scattering
- Four-wave mixing
- Self-/Cross-Phase Modulation (SPM/XPM)
- Passive Transmission Devices
- Couplers
- Splitters
- Isolators
- Circulators
- Gratings
- More on Passive Transmission Devices
- Fabry-Perot filter (FSR, Finesse)
- Mach-Zehnder interferometers
- Arrayed Waveguide Gratings (AWGs)
- Multiplexer architecture
- Active Transmission Devices
- Erbium-doped and Raman fiber amplifiers
- Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (SOAs).
- Transmitters: Lasers, distributed-feedback lasers, mode-locked lasers
- LEDs
- More on Active Transmission Devices
- Direct and external modulation
- Detectors: Photodetectors and photodiodes
- Optical switches
- Wavelength converters
- Modulation
- Signal formats
- Subcarrier modulation
- Optical channel capacity
- Demodulation: Shot/thermal noise; ideal signal detection
- Optical signal-to-noise, bit error rate
- Intersymbol Interference (ISI)
- Coherent detection
- Point-to-Point Links
- Optical link budgets, margin
- Power penalties, maximum transmit power
- Dispersion compensation
- Amplifier cascades
- Client Layers
- DWDM Network Architecture
- Optical Add-Drop Multiplexers (OADMs)
- Optical Cross-Connects (OXCs)
- Lightpath Topology Design (LTD)
- Routing & Wavelength Assignment (RWA), Graph coloring
- More on DWDM Network Architecture
- Network survivability
- SONET rings
- Optical protection, reliability (MTBF, MTTR).
- Optical control and management
- Performance management, optical overhead.
- Optical Transport Network (OTN)
- Access Networks
- Deployment Considerations
- ITU standards
- Undersea cable
- Emerging and Future DWDM Systems
- Photonic packet switching
- OTDM
- Wrap-up: Course Recap, Q/A, and Evaluations
