EE-440: Photonic systems and technology

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Lectures in this course (53)

Gain Medium Amplification: Budget and Saturation

Discusses gain medium pumping, amplifier budget, saturation photon flux density, and gain coefficient.

Optical Pumping Schemes: Levels and Amplification

Explores optical pumping schemes for population inversion in laser systems, comparing 3-level and 4-level systems' efficiency.

Rare Earth Doped Fiber Amplifiers: Erbium Operation

Explores rare earth doped fiber amplifiers, focusing on erbium operation at 1550 nm wavelength and the factors influencing gain spectrum.

Raman Amplification: Fundamentals and Design

Explores Raman amplification in silica fibers, covering spontaneous Raman scattering, amplifier characteristics, gain saturation, and design considerations.

Optical Signal-to-Noise Ratio in Amplified Systems

Explains amplifier noise, optical SNR measurement, EDFA noise, and the impact of amplifier spacing on OSNR.

Optical Amplification: SNR and Noise Figure

Explores optical amplification effects on SNR and noise figure in photonic systems.

Optical Fiber Systems: Performance Analysis

Covers the performance analysis of optical fiber systems, including power transmission, bandwidth, and system limitations.

Communication System Design: Rise Time and Dispersion Limits

Covers dispersion and rise time limits in communication systems and the evolution of fiber components.

Multiplexing: Techniques and Applications

Explores multiplexing techniques, including FDM, TDM, WDM systems, and OTDM in optical communication.

Evolution of Optical Fiber Communication

Explores the evolution of optical fiber communication, from early generations to recent advancements in capacity and reliability.

Optical Fiber Communications: Spectral Efficiency

Delves into advanced techniques in optical fiber communications to increase spectral efficiency and explores the use of multi-core fibers for space-division multiplexing.

Nonlinear Fiber Optics: Hollow Core Fibers

Explores nonlinear fiber optics, hollow core fibers, high laser peak powers, and ultrafast amplification techniques.

Optical Frequency Combs: Precision and Applications

Covers optical frequency combs, their generation, applications in microresonators, and precision measurement of optical frequencies.

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