Course Specification1

1. Course Code: ENG5066 2. Course Title: Optical Communications 3. Short Title: Optical Communications 4. Academic Session: 2011-12 5. Level: Level 5 (SCQF level 11) 6. Credits: 20 7. Independent Work (course can be used to meet the generic Honours requirement to achieve a grade D3 or better in a piece of independent work worth at least 20 credits): No 8. Subject: Engineering 9. Campus: Main Campus 10. College: College of Science and Engineering 11. Lead School/Institute: Engineering [REG30300000]

This specification provides a concise summary of the main features of the course and the learning outcomes that a typical student might reasonably be expected to achieve and demonstrate if full advantage is taken of the learning opportunities that are provided. More detailed information on the learning outcomes, content and teaching, learning and assessment methods of each course can be found in course handbooks and other course documentation and online at http://www.gla.ac.uk

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12. Collaborative: No 12.1. Teaching Institutions: . 13. Short Description: This course provides an introduction to optical data transmission. It covers the materials used in optoelectronics, the operation of LEDs and lasers, optical fibres, optical detectors and concepts for modern optical fibre communication systems.

14. Requirements of Entry: None.

15. Co-requisites (courses that must be taken in conjunction with this course): None.

16. Excluded Courses: None.

17. Associated Programmes: MSc Electronics & Electrical Engineering, MSc Electronics Design, MSc Telecommunication Electronics, MSc Computer Systems Engineering

18. Offered in alternate sessions: No 19. Typically offered: Semester One 20. Timetable (if known) and length and frequency of teaching sessions: Weekly Thursday 9am 1pm

21. Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits:

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Requirements for the award of credits To ensure that a student will be awarded the credits for a course, he or she must complete the course and reach a minimum level of attainment. This requires that a student:

be present at lectures, laboratories and tutorials on at least 50% of occasions at which attendance is monitored, satisfactorily complete the assignments in the laboratories, attend the class test (if held) and gain a nonzero mark and attend the degree examination and gain a nonzero mark Note that these are minimum requirements: good students will achieve far higher participation rates. Any student who misses an assessment or a significant number of classes because of illness or other good cause should report this by completing a Websurf absence report. 22. Available to visiting students: Yes 23. Taught wholly by distance learning: No 24. DACE Credit Bearing: No 25. Represents a work placement or year of study abroad: No 26. Course Aims:

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Description of course Aims To introduce devices and systems principles underlying digital optical data transmission. Objectives Understanding Optical data transmission starting from materials and devices, through the properties of optical fibres to an elementary understanding of overall system concepts. Knowledge Materials used in optoelectronics, the operation of LEDs and lasers, optical fibres, optical detectors and concepts for modern optical fibre communication systems. Skills Design of devices (laser, detectors and fibres) and overall system considerations. Practical skills in fabrication of devices, handling of optical fibres, coupling of optical sources to optical fibres. 1. Optical Data Transmission 20 lectures and 4 tutorials Syllabus Optical properties of semiconductors: semiconductor band structure, effective masses, density of states, recombination mechanisms, interband matrix element, stimulated and spontaneous rates, direct and indirect semiconductors, semiconductor alloys. Injection luminescence, internal quantum efficiency, double heterostructures, quantum wells, description of LEDs, lasers: basic principles of laser action, condition for laser action, types of lasers, fibre laser, laser modes and mode control, semiconductor laser. Theory of laser action in semiconductors, both bulk and quantum confined, semiconductor lasers for optical fibre systems: full description of device. Slab optical waveguide and rays. Optical fibres, multi-mode and single-mode, numerical aperture and dispersion. Fibre optical components. Photodiodes (PIN, avalanche and heterostructure); principles of operation, construction and frequency response. Noise; shot and Johnson. Receiver amplifier noise and bandwidth analysis; integrating (high impedance), low impedance and transimpedance designs. Systems: point-to-point, power budgets, dispersion limits. Wideband networks, Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) and Frequency Division Multiplexing (FDM). Digital optical network design: topologies and multiplexing. Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH/SONET). Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). High capacity digital networks: Optical TDM (OTDM) and Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM). 2. Laboratory 3 sessions Syllabus Practical and modelling experience of optoelectronic technology.

27. Intended Learning Outcomes of Course: By the end of this course students will be able to: .

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28. Learning and Teaching Methods: Method Formal Contact Hours Lecture Seminar / Presentation / PBL Tutorial Laboratory work Project work Field work / Clinical work E-learning / Distance Learning Placement Examination Essay Private study Other (please specify below) TOTAL 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Not Applicable 100.00 100.00

Notional Learning Hours

(including formal contact hours)

0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 200.00 200.00

28.1 Description of Other Learning and Teaching Methods: Study times 5 hours per term4 hours per week4 hours per termType

Details

Report Writing Self study Tutorial Sheets 4 hours per term Assignments

These times are a rough estimate of the work required outside formal classes by a typical student. There will be wide variations between individuals, but you will run a grave risk of failure if you spend significantly less time on this course than these guidelines suggest.

29. Summative Assessment Methods: Method % Coursework 0% 29.1 Description of Summative Assessment: Project Examination 0% Degree work Placement 0% Continuous Assessment Examination 70% Other 30% TOTAL 100 Assessment Method:

29.2 Description of Other Summative

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30. Grading Basis: Schedule A 31. Examination Diet: December 32. Total Exam Duration (Excluding in-class tests): 120 minutes 32.1. Standard Duration: Yes 32.2. Details where durations are non-standard or longer than 180 minutes:

33. Are reassessment opportunities normally available for all summative assessments in this course: Select...

34. Formative Assessment: None.

35. Additional Relevant Information:

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Recommended books Optical Communications Essentials (1st Ed)McGraw Hill20030071412042 BElectromagnetic Principles of Integrated OpticsWiley1986047 1879789BPrentice Hall2001020161087 6BAuthors

Title, edition

Publisher

Year ISBN

Code

Gerd Keiser D L Lee Optoelectronic s and Photonics S O Kasap

Codes : A = compulsory; B = strongly recommended; C = recommended; D = wider reading 36. Intended Student NumbersMax: 37. Intended Student NumbersMin: 38. Intended Student NumbersTarget: Date of production / revision:

50 10 30 25/10/2011

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