Chair of Communications

Advanced Photonic Communcation Systems

Number:
080105 / 080106 / etit-632
Lecturer:
Dr. Ronald Freund (Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut)

Content:

High-Speed Optical Core and Submarine Systems

  • transmission schemes and modulation formats
  • detection schemes, digital signal processing for coherent detection
  • optical network elements

 

Optical Wireless Communication Systems

  • basics and advances in optical satellite communication
  • free-space terrestrial optical communication systems
  • visible light communication systems 

 

Optical Access Systems

  • state-of-the art FTTx systems
  • next generation optical access systems (OFDM/DWDM/UDWDM-PON)
  • optical front- and backhaul systems

 

Optical Systems for Data Center Applications

  • high-speed Ethernet 
  • multimode fiber short-reach networks
  • high-speed inter-data center connects

Literature:

  • G. P. Agrawal. Nonlinear Fiber Optics. Academic Press, second edition, 1995.
  • References are mostly taken from IEEE Xplore Digital Library and will be provided during the course.