Catalog Description

Light propagation in fibers and waveguides; termination, coupling, and splicing of fibers; fiber optic communication; optical time domain reflectometry, fiber amplifiers, and fiber sensors. Prerequisite: Physical Optics EE450

Course Objectives

At the end of this course, all students should be able to

  1. Calculate modal propagation in fiber optics
  2. Quantify absorption, scattering, bending, radiation, and connection losses
  3. Calculate and measure dispersion
  4. Estimate bandwidth of an optical fiber system
  5. Describe and use optical time domain reflectometry
  6. Explain common non-linear fiber effects
  1. Introduction
    • Ray optics
    • Numerical aperture
    • Fiber losses
    • Lab: SMA Connectors

  2. Guided Light
    • Rays
    • Paths
    • Graded Index
    • Lab: Polishing and Efficiency

  3. Planar Waveguide
    • Eigenvalues solutions
    • Mode properties
    • Lab: Fusion Splicing

  4. Cylindrical Waveguides
    • Bessel Functions
    • Diffraction Optics
    • Gaussian Beams
    • Lab: Fiber Sensors

  5. Dispersion
    • Waveguide dispersion
    • Fiber dispersion
    • Pulse propagation
    • Lab: OTDR

  6. Non-linearities
    • Optical Kerr effect
    • Self-phase modulation
    • Solitons
    • Lab:

  7. Continuous Wave Lasers
    • Rate Equations
    • 3 and 4 level lasers
    • Multi-mode and Single-mode
    • Lab:

  8. Non-linear Evolution
    • Evolution
    • Propogation
    • Mode Locking
    • Lab:

  9. Next Generation Fibers
    • Photonic Crystals
    • Nano-fiber tips
    • Antennas
    • Lab: xxx

  10. Optical Fiber Amplifiers
    • Stimulated emssion
    • Gain Doped Fibers
    • Lab: