Department of Physics

18105  Optical Communication Systems and Networks   

Course Webpage: https://eclass.uoa.gr/courses/D212/

Course Content

• Operating principles of optical communication systems and networks;
• Structure and architecture
• Optical transmitters
• Optical receivers
• Optical repeaters
• Optical communication channel (optical fiber / free space)
• Optical network nodes
• Modulation formats
• Demodulation, signal to nopise calculation, information extraction
• Complete design of the physical layer of an optical network