Lightwave Technology
About the course
After successful completion of the module the students will gain the following competences:
- Physical basics and active principles of passive and active optical components for optical transmission systems
- Mathematical description of optical signal propagation
- Single and multimode fibers, their attenuation and Dispersion properties and their areas of application
- Types of dispersion and methods of compensation
- Attenuation mechanisms of optical waveguides
- Coupling options for optical waveguides
- Basic knowledge of components and systems of the optical communication
Curriculum
- Introduction
- Photonic systems: overview and applications
- Light as an electromagnetic wave
- Guidance and network-theoretical description of waves
- Optical waveguides
- Reflection and refraction of plane waves at dielectric boundary layers
- Dielectric film waveguide
- Circular symmetric waveguides (fibers)
- Designs, properties and parameters of optical waveguide
- Dispersion and attenuation, dispersion compensation
- Coupling of optical waveguides
- Manufacture of optical waveguides
- Optical transmission and reception components, optical amplifiers
- LED and laser diodes
- Photodiodes
- Fiber amplifier
- Optical transmission systems
- Structure of an optical transmission system
- Optical transmission systems with fiber amplifiers
- Multiplexing
Credit hours
Presence study: 60 h, Self study: 120 h.
Your Instructor
Prof. Elmar Griese
room:
H-A-6104
phone:
+49(0)271-740-4757/3355
mail:
elmar.griese@uni-siegen.de
In 2002, Elmar Griese was appointed as a university professor for the chair of Theoretical Electrical Engineering and Photonics at the University of Siegen. Prof. Griese's research areas at the University of Siegen are modeling, simulation, analysis and design of optical components and architectures for optical packaging. His teaching areas include theoretical electrical engineering, fundamentals of signal and system theory and optical communications engineering.