Study Topics

The following slides contain references to introductory articles as

initial background reading.

CDROMs in Library

• Introduction to Fiber Optic Theory and Fiber Structure

• Fiber Optic Cable

• Fiber Optic Connectors, Connectorization and Patch Panels

• Fiber Optic Testing, Troubleshooting and Documentation

• Fiber Optic Applications

• Fiber Optic LEDs, Lasers, and Detectors

• Fiber Optic Couplers, Switches, and Isolators

• Fiber Optic Installation

• Fiber Optic Safety

• Plastic Optical Fiber

• Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing

• Fiber Optic System Design

• History of Fiber Optics

• Fiber Optic Splicing and Splice Closures

Topics• MEMS

• Receivers

• Transmitters

• Optical Amplifiers

• Planar Waveguides

• Gigabit Ethernet

• WDM

• Fibres

• Solitons

• Multiplexing

• Measurements

• Optical PONs

• Optical packet switching

• Component manufacture

• AWGs

• ROADMs

• Optical Cross Connects

• Photonic Crystals

• MANs and WANs

MEMS– Silicon Micromachines for Lightwave

Networks: Little Machines with a Big Future, OPN Trends 1 14-15 (2001)

– Lightwave Micromachines for Optical Networks, Optics & Photonics News 12-3 60-65 (2001)

– Tunable MEMS Devices for Optical Networks, Optics & Photonics News 14-3 42-49 (2003)

Tx/Rx

– VCSELs Go the Distance, Optics & Photonics News 13-3 44-47 (2002)

– Coarse WDM Transceivers, Optics & Photonics News 13-3 S-8 (2002)

– Photodiode Front Ends, Optics & Photonics News 12-4 44-47 (2001)

– Novel Fiber Lasers and Applications, Optics & Photonics News, 14-3 38-41 (2003)

Optical Amplifiers– Broadband Raman Amplifiers, Optics &

Photonics News 13-7 52-56– The Role of Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers,

Optics & Photonics News 12-3 36-43 (2001)– Evolution of Optical Amplifiers, Optics &

Photonics News 13-8 36-39 (2002)– The Dynamics of Semiconductor Optical

Amplifiers: Modeling and Applications Optics & Photonics News 14-7 42-48 (2003)

Planar Waveguides

Gigabit Ethernet

– Gigabit ethernet technology and applications, Mark Norris, Boston, Mass., London, Artech House, 2003, 004.68 NOR

WDM– The Processing Power of Light, Optics & Photonics

News 13-3 38-43 (2002)– Multiple Optical Carrier Generation From a A

Supercontinuum Source, Optics & Photonics News 13-3 48-52 (2002)

– Lambda-Level Mesh Networks, Optics & Photonics News 12-6 40-43 (2001)

– The future of wavelength-division multiplexing, OPN Trends 1 4 (2001)

– WDM Terabit Technologies with High Spectral Efficiency, Optics & Photonics News 12-3 56-59 (2001)

WDM

– The Evolution of SONET/SDH Over WDM, Optics & Photonics News 14-3 32-37 (2003)

Fibres

– Too much Fibre?, Optics & Photonics News 13-3 32-37 (2002)

– Chromatic Dispersion and Polarization-Mode Dispersion: Managing Key Limitations in Optical Communication Systems, Optics & Photonics News 13-3 S-16 (2002)

– The Fibre Story, OPN Trends 1 20-23 (2001)

Solitons

– Optical Solitons in Fibres, Optics & Photonics News 13-2 33-37 (2002)

– Govind P. Agrawal, “Fiber-optic communication systems”, 3rd edition – John Wiley & Sons, 2002

Multiplexing

– Ultrahigh-Speed Optical Time-Division Multiplexing Transmission, OPN Trends 1 16-19 (2001)

– Optical Code-Division Multiplexing, Optics & Photonics News 12-3 50-55 (2001)

Measurements

– New Developments in the Analysis of High-Speed Optical Communication Signals, Optics & Photonics News 13-3 S-4 (2002)

– Optical Metrology for WDM, Optics & Photonics News 12-3 44-49 (2001)

– Testing DWDM components for Loss and Dispersion Optics & Photonics News 14-7 36-41 (2003)

PONs

– Fibre to the Home: Why “the Last Mile” is Truly the Hardest, Optics & Photonics News, 14-3 26-31 (2003)

Optical Packet Switching

– All-optical Label Swapping for the Future Internet, Optics & Photonics News 13-3 22-25 (2002)

Component Manufacture

– Reliability Methodologies for Fibre-Optic Components, Optics & Photonics News 13-5 34-39 (2002)

Arrayed Waveguides

– Arrayed Waveguide Grating Technology, Optics & Photonics News 13-6 38-43 (2002)

ROADMs

Optical Cross Connects

Photonic Crystals

– Microstructured Optical Fibres, Optics & Photonics News 13-9 38-43 (2002)

– Nonlinear Photonic Crystals, Optics & Photonics News 13-7 48-51 (2002)

– Photonic Crystals: An Engineering Perspective, Optics & Photonics News 13-6 16-19 (2002)

– Photonic Crystal Fibres: New Solution in Fibre Optics, Optics & Photonics News 13-3 26-31 (2002)

MANs and WANs

– Developing Efficient, High-Capacity Metropolitan Area Networks, OPN Trends 1 8-13 (2001)

– Global Undersea Cable Networks, Optics & Photonics News 12-3 32-35 (2001)

Tunable Lasers

– Ramaswami, Sivarajan - Optical Networks pages 178-186

– Photonics Spectra Sept 2002, Pages 75-80 - Widely Tunable Lasers Ready to Lock and Roll, Annie Lindstrom (freelance journalist)

– Fibresystems Europe June 2002, Page 42 - Tunable VCSELs eye up metro and access

– Fibresystems Europe April 2002, Pages 24-26 - Tunable lasers lock on as opportunity knocks, Jens Buus, Gayton Photonics.

– Europhotonics Aug/Sept 2002, Pages 48-49 - Tunable laser applications take different routes, Kevin Affolter, Agility Communications.