EE 643 Photonic Communication Network Devices

Introduces the principles of operation for photonic communication devices. These include optical fibers, couplers, splitters, taps, isolators, circulators, attenuators, tunable filters, laser diodes, modulators/demodulators, photodetectors, lightwave amplifiers, wavelength converters/routers, wavelength division multiplexers/demultiplexers, optical add/drop multiplexers, optical switches, optical packet switches.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

requires prior enrollment in EE 404 & EE 413 or in EE 550