A new graduate course in Optical Communications is being offered during the upcoming Spring term. The course is listed as ECET 680-009 Optical Communications. Professor P. Mohana Shankar will be teaching this course. He has developed several graduate and undergraduate courses in the area of fiber-optic communications and an undergraduate course in wireless communications.
The course will cover:
- Noise in Optical Systems
- Shot noise
- Avalanche Noise
- Free space and optical fiber systems
- Analog optical systems and subcarrier optical systems
- Digital optical communication systems
- Error rates and performance measures
- Coherent optical systems
- Heterogeneous and homogeneous systems
- Optical multiplexing
- Optical WDM and DWDM
- Radio over fiber
- Wireless fiber optic system and its performance
For questions, please contact Professor P. Mohana Shankar.