Lecture 1 - Overview of fiber-optic communication systems
Lecture 2 - Review of Maxwell’s equations
Lecture 3 - Uniform plane waves (UWPs) in free-space
Lecture 4 - Properties of UWPs (propagation constant, polarization, and Poynting vector)
Lecture 5 - Boundary conditions and reflection from a PEC
Lecture 6 - Obliquely incident waves-I (TE and TM waves, Snell’s laws)
Lecture 7 - Obliquely incident waves-II (Reflection and transmission coefficients, Brewster angle)
Lecture 8 - Total internal reflection
Lecture 9 - Ray theory of dielectric slab waveguides
Lecture 10 - Transverse resonance condition for slab waveguides
Lecture 11 - Introduction to optical fibers
Lecture 12 - Ray theory of light propagation in optical fibers
Lecture 13 - Concept of waveguide modes
Lecture 14 - Systematic procedure to obtain modes of a waveguide
Lecture 15 - Systematic analysis of parallel plate metallic waveguide
Lecture 16 - Systematic analysis of dielectric slab waveguides
Lecture 17 - Further discussion on slab waveguides
Lecture 18 - Modal analysis of step index optical fiber
Lecture 19 - Properties of modes of step-index optical fiber - I
Lecture 20 - Properties of modes of step-index optical fiber - II
Lecture 21 - Linearly polarized modes
Lecture 22 - Attenuation and power loss in fibers
Lecture 23 - Introduction to dispersion in fibers
Lecture 24 - Mathematical modelling of dispersion: Transfer function approach
Lecture 25 - Pulse propagation equation and its solution
Lecture 26 - Pre-chirped pulses and Inter and Intra-modal dispersion in optical fibers
Lecture 27 - Beam Propagation Method
Lecture 28 - Polarization Effects on Pulse Propagation
Lecture 29 - Modes in Optical Fibres and Pulse Propagation in Optical Fibres
Lecture 30 - Graded Index Fibers
Lecture 31 - Light Sources, Detectors and Amplifiers
Lecture 32 - Basics of Lasers-I (Structure of Lasers, Process of Photon Emission)
Lecture 33 - Basics of Lasers-II (Einstein's Theory of Radiation)
Lecture 34 - Basics of Lasers-III (Population Inversion and Rate Equation for Lasers)
Lecture 35 - Basic Properties of Semiconductor Laser-I (Energy Gap, Intrinsic and Extrinsic Semiconductors)
Lecture 36 - Basic Properties of Semiconductor Laser-II (Fermi Level)
Lecture 37 - Optical Properties of Semiconductors-I (Direct Bandgap and Indirect Bandgap, Density of States)
Lecture 38 - Optical Properties of Semiconductors-II (Gain, Absorption, Recombination rate) Homojunction Lasers
Lecture 39 - Double Heterostructure Lasers, Introduction to Quantum Well Lasers
Lecture 40 - Semiconductor Optical Amplifier
Lecture 41 - Erbium-doped fiber amplifier
Lecture 42 - Photodetectors
Lecture 43 - Noise in Photodetectors
Lecture 44 - Introduction to WDM components
Lecture 45 - Couplers, Circulators, FRM and Filters
Lecture 46 - Filter, MUX/DEMUX, Diffraction grating (FBG and Long period grating)
Lecture 47 - Optical Modulators-I (Current modulation)
Lecture 48 - Optical Modulators-II (Electro-optic modulators)
Lecture 49 - Review of Communication Concepts-I (Deterministic and Random Signals, Baseband and Passband Signals)
Lecture 50 - Review of Communication Concepts-II (Signal and vectors, Signal energy, Orthonormal basis functions)
Lecture 51 - Intensity modulation/ Direct Detection
Lecture 52 - BER discussion for OOK systems
Lecture 53 - Higher order modulation and Coherent Receiver
Lecture 54 - Coherent receiver for BPSK systems and BER calculation
Lecture 55 - Recovering Polarization
Lecture 56 - DSP algorithms for Chromatic dispersion mitigation
Lecture 57 - DSP algorithms for Carrier phase estimation - I
Lecture 58 - DSP algorithms for Carrier phase estimation - II
Lecture 59 - Nonlinear effects in fiber
Lecture 60 - Four wave mixing, Loss measurement, Dispersion measurement
Lecture 61 - Lab Demonstration (Laser diode characteristics, Loss measurement, Optical Intensity Modulation)