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•• Physical layer
Planar waveguides; optical fibers; attenuation; modal dispersion; chromatic dispersion; non linear effects; link power budget; splitters, couplers, filters, wavelength de/multiplexers, LEDs and laser diodes, SOA, EDFA and Raman amplifiers, PIN and avalanche photodiodes, noise in the receivers; amplitude and phase modulators;
CWDM, DWDM and OTDM systems; modulation formats; ODFM; error coding.

• Overview of communication networks
ISO/OSI levels; Digital hierarchies; PSTN; Protocols: IP, Ethernet, Frame Relay, ATM, FDDI.

• Core networks
PHD, SONET and SDH protocols; OTN networks; protection and restoration; ASON.

• Access network
PSTN and FTTx systems, Passive optical networks (PON): protocols GPON, EPON and BPON. Next generation access networks NG-PON.

• Circuit, packet and burst switching
Wavelength routed networks; lightpath topology design; Routing and wavelength Assignment; optical router and contention resolution; optical buffering; optical cross connection (OXC). MPLS and generalized MPLS protocols.

• Security in optical networks
Transport layer security, key exchange, authentication, confidentiality, bit and block optical ciphering techniques; qubit; quantum cryptography; protocols for quantum key distribution (QKD).

Chinlon Lin - Broadband optical access networks and fiber-to-the-home: systems technologies and deployment strategies.
Govind P. Agrawal - Fiber-Optic Communication Systems.
Govind P. Agrawal - Lightwave Technology.
Paul Green - Fiber to the home: the new empowerment
John Vacca - Optical Networking
Mark Stamp - Applied cryptanalysis: breaking ciphers in the real world
Hsiao-Hwa Chen - Security and communication networks
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