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How to reach me and TA
EE558 OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION
SYSTEMS
In class after (and during) lectures.
Office Hours: Friday 4:30-5:30 @ PHE 414
Phone:213-740 ????
by e-mail: piazzoll@sipi.usc.edu
remember to write on the Subject line: EE558.
Dr. Sabino Piazzolla
Friday
OHE 122
TA: Jeng-Yuan Yang e-mail: jengyuay@usc.edu
0ffice Hours Wednesday: 4:00-6:00 @ EEB-524
Office Phone: 213-740-0024
Lab Phone:
(213) 740 1488
Grader: XiaoXia Wu
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Course WebSite
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Course Prerequisite
All the information concerning the course will be available
and posted on the Class Web-Site (Board).
Course Notes, Homework, Homework solutions will be
posted on the Web-Site and/or distributed in class.
In case of urgent or last minute communication you need
to be reached, therefore we need your most frequently
used e-mail. To to that, send and e-mail Jeng-Yuan Yang
e-mail address, jengyuay@usc.edu, with the subject:
EE558-My EMAIL
please do that by this weekend !!!!
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The course covers a number of topics and it will be
beneficial if you have basic knowledge of Optics,
Communications, Probability Theory, Circuit Theory and
Some Network Theory.
However, all the basic concepts will be introduced in
class.
If you need further explanations or clarifications
questions are welcome, the class is almost 3 hours long
and I prefer not to be the only one to talk!!!
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Course Requirements
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Text Book and Material
Homeworks: almost on weekly basis. They will count
for the 10% of the final grade.
I will ask you also to read and comment some selected
papers as part of your homework assignments.
A Midterm Exam: it will count for the 30% of the
final grade. Date? Probably around Beginning of
March….
A Final Exam: it will count for 60% of the final grade.
Final Exam Date? The last day of Class !!!!!!!!
Note: both exams will consist in two sections. One
closed books section. One open class notes (only)
section.
Extra Credits? No.
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Textbook: Optical Fiber Communications Systems
During the course, class notes and journal papers covering the
course material will be distributed through the course web-page.
Of course, you are responsible only of the material covered in class!
Class notes will be distributed right after the class or just before,
over the class web-page
Tests (midterm and final) will cover what is done in class and
presented in your class notes.
The “official textbook”: ‘Optical Fiber Communications Systems’ by
L. Kazowsky,S. Benedetto, and A. Willner -Artech House Publ. 1996.
However, here a list of books that are recommended. Depending on
your professional interests and background you may consider the
following ones .... just remember:
BUY THE LATEST EDITION: THIS FIELD UNDERWENT
DRAMATIC CHANGES IN THE LAST FEW YEARS AND THE
NEWEST BOOK EDITIONS ON FIBER OPTICS DIFFER FROM
THE OLD ONES NOT ONLY ON THE COLOR OF THE COVER PAGE
!!!!!!!!!
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Fiber-Optic Communication Systems
by Leonid Kazowsky,
Sergio Benedetto, and
Alan Willner
Artech House Publ.
1996
by Govind P. Agrawal
John Wiley& Sons Publ.
Third Edition 2002
Another Complete Text
about Optical Fiber
Communication Systems.
A complete textbook.
Next, few more recent
publications worth of
consideration.........
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Optical Fiber Communications
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Optical Networks: A practical perspective
by Rajiv
Ramaswami,
Kumar Sivarajan
Morgan Kaufmann
Publishers
2nd edition
(October 15,
2001).
Definitely one of
the best books in
Optical Networks
G. Keiser
Third Edition.
McGraw-Hill, 2000.
A little bit more
demanding on optics.
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Understanding Optical Communications
Fiber Optic Communications
"Understanding Optical
Communications"
by J. Palais Fourth
Edition.
Prentice Hall, 2004.
5th Edition
by Harry J. R. Dutton
Actually, you can (must)
download it for free at
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/re
dbooks/pdfs/sg245230.pdf
Do it, it is a very clear book and
it will be useful to read it during
the course.
Not too much math and
formulas, but you can get a lot
out of it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice and clear optics
treatment.
Less depth on the
communications side.
WDM is not treated in
depth
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MODULES: PDF files comprehensive of the class
notes
1.0 REVIEW OF OPTICS….. STARTING NEXT
2.0 LIGHTSOURCES
3.0 OPTICAL FIBERS
4.0 OPTICAL COUPLERS
MIDTERM
5.0 RECEIVERS
6.0 OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS
7.0 DIGITAL SIGNALS
8.0 MULTIPLEXING
9.0 OPTICAL NETWORKS
Final Exam!!
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