Università Roma Tre

• Optical waveguides and fibers
Planar waveguides: dispersion equation; optical modes; fabrication processes and losses.
Optical fibers: modes in a step index fiber; multimode fibers; chromatic dispersion; chromatic dispersion compensation; graded index fibers, plastic optical fibers; non-linear effects; WDM.

• Passive optical devices
Planar lightwave circuit (PLC) devices: power splitters; directional couplers; MMI couplers; optical filters; Mach Zehnder interferometer; gratings; waveguide grating routers; Bragg gratings; Fabry-Perot interferometers.

• Polarization mode dispersion (PMD)
Polarization states; Stokes parameters; Poincarè Sphere; principal states of polarizationStati di polarizzazione; PMD vector; differential group delay (DGD); PMD power penalty

• Optical Transmitters
Absorption and emission in a semiconductor; LED; semiconductor lasers; DFB lasers; quantum dot lasers.

• Optical Amplifiers
Performances, noise figure, semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA), wavelength converters; Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier (EDFA); Raman Amplifiers.

• Optical Receivers
PIN and avalanche photodiodes, noise; bit error rate (BER); eye diagram; sensitivity; quantum limit of photodetection.

• Optical Modulators
Direct laser modulation; electro-absorption modulator; MZI modulators; modulation formats: CS, DPSK.

E. Sachinger "Broadband circuits for optical communications"
G. P. Agrawal "Fiber Optics communication systems"
G. P. Agrawal "Lightwave technologies"
R. S. Quimbly "Photonics and lasers"
H. Isikawa “Ultrafast all-optical signal processing devices”
S. Obayya “Computational photonics”