| Educational guide School of Engineering |
english |
| Bach. Degree in Telecommunication Systems and Services Engineering (2016) |
 Subjects |
| BROADBAND AND OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS |
| Contents |
| IDENTIFYING DATA | 2021_22 |
| Subject | BROADBAND AND OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS | Code | 17244134 | |||||
| Study programme |
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Cycle | 1st | |||||
| Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
| 6 | Compulsory | Fourth | 1Q |
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| Competences | Learning outcomes | Contents |
| Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
| Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
| Topic | Sub-topic |
| 1. Photonics and optical devices | - Photons: Basic concepts and interaction with matter - Principles of operation of a laser Semiconductor devices in Optics: Optical Detectors and Light Emitting - Bands in semiconductors. Doped. PN junction. - PIN photodiodes. Energy gap. IV characteristic. - Detection of light: the quantum limit. Quantum efficiency and responsivity. - Quantum noise. Sensitivity of a receiver. Comparison between PIN and APD. - Ligth emitters: LED and Laser. The Fabry-Perot. Frequency resonances and FWHM. |
| 2. Fiber optic. | - Introduction to optical communications. The wavelength multiplexing (WDM and DWDM). - Fiber optic. Principle of operation. Numeric aperture. Types of fibers: attenuation and dimensions. The transmission windows. Single mode fibers. - Dispersion in optical fiber. |
| 3. Communications systems with fiber optic | - Basics of WDM systems. - DWM system components: multiplexer, dispersion compensation, optical filters - The external modulation: electro materials, the phase modulator, the amplitude modulator Mach-Zenhder - Optical amplifiers. - Optical Links: Analysis of sytems limited by power and bandwidth. -Basic principles optical networks. |
| 4: Construcció i despegament de xarxes òptiques | - Construction and deployment of WDM, GPON, FTTH and MAN ETHERNET networks. - Basic criteria for the planning of commercial optical networks. - Introduction to optical network protocols. |
| 5. Global Positioning System (GPS). | - Principle of operation. GPS signal. GPS message. GPS receiver. Reception of GPS signals. Other systems (Galileo, Glonass) |
| 6. Systems based on satellites | - Basic principles of satellites. Orbits. Propellants and launch techniques. |
| 7. Communication systems based on satellite | - Types of systems based on satellite - Earth-satellite communication link - Receiving of satellite signals. Antennas and guidance. Link budget - DVB standards. Blocks, modulations and variations. |
