Università Roma Tre

• 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.

• 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).

• Optical wireless communications
Architecture; Line of Sight (LoS) and Non Line of Sight (NloS) links; channel features and models; OOK and PPM modulations.

C. Lin - Broadband optical access networks and fiber-to-the-home: systems technologies and deployment strategies
G. P. Agrawal: Fiber-optic communication systems
G. P. Agrawal - Lightwave technology
P. Green - Fiber to the home: the new empowerment
J. Vacca - Optical networking
M. Stamp - Applied cryptanalysis: breaking ciphers in the real world
H. H. Chen - Security and communication networks
Z. Ghassemlooy, W. Popoola, and S. Rajbhandari, “Optical wireless communications”