EE472 Syllabus, Spring 2013
 

Dates

Subject

Reading

Problems (normally due the following Friday)

 Lab Group 2 Lab Group 3

1/8-1/15

Optics Fundamentals, Dispersion

 1.1-1.6,
3.1-3.3		 HW1: Ch 1 (9,14,23,27,29,31); Ch 3 (5,6,14,25)
(due Wed, 1/16)		 Hardware Lab 1 Hardware Lab 1

1/16-1/22
1/21 - MLK, Jr Day

Rays, Plane Boundaries

2.1,2.4-2.6,
3.4-3.5

 HW2: Ch 2 (10,12,13); Ch 3 (1,3,7,18,20,22)
(due 1/25)		 Hardware Lab 2 Hardware Lab 2

1/23-1/29

Critical Angle,
Slab Waveguides

3.6-3.7,
4.1-4.2,4.4

HW3:  Ch 2 (2); Ch 3 (10,13); Ch 4 (8,11 )
(due 2/1)

 Hardware Lab 3 Hardware Lab 3

1/30-2/5

Slab Waveguides,

Optical Fiber

4.5-4.7,
5.1-5.2

HW4:  Ch 4 (1,2,3,4,5(no plots),6)

(due 2/8)

 Hardware Lab 4 Hardware Lab 4

2/6-2/12

 Attenuation,
Optical Fiber Modes

5.3-5.4

HW5: Ch 4 (9); Ch 5 (3,9,10,16,23(no plot),25,30,32,33)(due 2/15)

 Hardware Lab 5 Simulation Lab 1

2/13-2/19
2/18 - President's Day

Fiber Dispersion,
LEDs

5.6-5.9,
6.1-6.2

HW6: Ch 4 (22); Ch 6 (1,2,4,5(bc),7(plot vs f),8,21,22)(due Mon, 2/25)

 Simulation Lab 1 Hardware Lab 5

2/20-2/26

LEDs, Resonant Cavities,
Laser Diodes

 3.4,
6.3-6.6		 HW7a: Ch 6 (6,9,12,18,19,23,24)
(due Mon, 3/4)		 Hardware Lab 6 Simulation Lab 2

2/27-3/5

Single Mode Laser Diodes, Direct Modulation

6.9-6.10,
10.1-10.2

HW7b: Ch 10 (2,3,4,5)
(due 3/8)

 EXAM I, 28 Feb 13 (2010 Exam I Solution)

3/6-3/19
3/9-3/17 - Spring Break

 External Modulation, Modulation Formats 4.6,
10.3-10.5		 HW8: Ch 4 (18,19 - just plot pout and vin vs t for both, don't normalize); Ch 10 (7,12,15,19,21,22) (due 3/22) Simulation Lab 2 Hardware Lab 6

3/20-3/26 

Photodetection, Noise 7.1-7.6, 11.1

HW9: Ch 7 (2,6,8,11,12,14,15,18,19,22); Ch 11 (1)
(due 3/29)

 Hardware Lab 8 Hardware Lab 7

3/27-4/2

 SNR, BER 11.2-11.3

HW10: Ch 7 (21); Ch 11 (2,3,4,5,6,8,10,11,14,18a-d)(due 4/5)

 Hardware Lab 7 Hardware Lab 8

4/3-4/9

 Receivers,
Network  Components

11.5-11.6,
9.1-9.3

HW11: Ch 9 (2,4,6,7,9,15,17,18,19,22)
(due 4/12)

 Simulation Lab 3 Simulation Lab 3

4/10-4/16

Network Components,

WDM

9.4-9.11

HW12: Ch 9 (23,30,31,32,35,36,37 - use phase shift

of 8p radians, find DL to 4 decimal places) (due 4/19)

 Simulation Lab 4 Hardware Lab 9

4/17-4/23

WDM,

Amplifiers

6.7-6.8,11.4

HW13: Ch 6 (13,14,15,26,29,31); Ch 11 (27abc,28)

(due 4/26)

 Hardware Lab 9 Simulation Lab 4

4/24-4/30
4/24 - 1/C Capstone Conf

Amplifiers, System Design

 12.1-12.3 HW14: none EXAM II, 25 Apr 13 (2010 Exam II Solution)

 

Hardware Labs (in Ri 022) 1 Lab Intro, Handling Fiber
2 Numerical Aperture
3 Fiber Coupling and Attenuation 
4 Single Mode Fibers II
5 Optical Modulator Characterization
6 SNR
7 BER
8 Passive Device Characterization
9 Optical Amplifiers
 
Simulation Labs
(in Ri 061)		 1 Introduction
2 Pulse Degradation in Optical Fiber
3 Optical Modulation - External vs Direct
4 Digital Receiver Sensitivity in a Fiber Optic Link