EE525 Fiber Optic Communications
Course catalog description: Optoelectronic and optical components for fiber optics; communications system physical layer issues and examples.
Offered: Spring semester of odd numbered years. Offered spring 2007 on Tuesday & Thursday from 9:30 to 10:45
Online: The course is typically offered online including during spring semester of even and odd numbered years if there is sufficient online enrollment.
Instructor: Kevin Lear
EE525 is a graduate level course, also
frequently taken by seniors in the Optoelectronics Concentration of the BSEE
program, which covers the physical layer (hardware) used for fiber optic
communications systems including components such as lasers, fibers, and
photodetectors and how they are combined to provide a single point-to-point
link. It does not address issues
such as network topologies, traffic routing, or packet structures or
protocols. If you want to learn
about fiber optic networks, consider an appropriate course such as EE456 or EE658.
EE525 class meets for two 75 minute lecture sessions each week and is available in the spring semester of odd numbered years as a traditional lecture course. It is also frequently offered as an online course through CSU’s Distance Education. Students enrolled in EE525 may access the course WebCT web page by clicking on the link below.
WebCT (You must be currently registered for the course to access this.)
Prerequisites: EE471. EE441 is recommended. All students will need a good grasp of
the following undergraduate electrical engineering junior-year fundamentals:
electronics including simple design problems, electromagnetic wave propagation,
linear systems, and differential equations.
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