Optical communication engineering
This is Derek Abbott's wiki project page for the Optical Communication Engineering (4041) lectures. All information regarding this course can be found here.
Contents
Introduction
All the Comms IV materials and downloads are on this page. There are no rules. Anyone can edit this page and add questions and discussion. It is self-moderating and you can delete and edit anything you like. To resolve conflicts use the discussion page. I encourage you to use this as a forum to ask technical questions and even give answers if you know them. If you come across your own hints and tips that you think are useful to others, feel free to add them.
Schedule
For Semester 2, 2010, there will be three lectures per week:
- Monday 11am, 322 (Hughes Building)
- Monday 12noon, 322 (Hughes Building)
- Wednesday, N132 (Engineering North Building)
We will meet during all three lecture slots and will have three lectures per week. The Wednesday slot will sometimes be a tutorial.
This will be announced the week before. In total there will be 2 tutorials and 23 set lectures. We will probably go over the 23 lectures for revision and worked examples, if needed.
Course Notes
You must bring hard copies of the notes to every lecture and annotate the notes, based on my lecture in order to make the most of attendance. It is cheaper to buy the notes from EESAU, however if you miss out you can download them from here:
Tutorials
You must download these tutorials and attempt them 1-week before the tutorial to get the most out of it. Each tutorial date will be announced a week in advance. Note that tutorial solutions are not given out, so you need to attend the tutorials.
Quiz
There will be one Quiz that will count towards 30% of the course (the exam will count as 70%). We will hold the quiz straight after the mid-term break.
Formula Sheets
Familiarize yourselves with this sheet as you get it as a handout in the exam:
The following formula sheet is designed for the whole BEng degree and is not given at exams. However it is very useful for solving problems for all courses in the degree for all 4 years. It is also useful if you carry on with a PhD.
Questions
If you found something confusing in an Opt Comms lecture and thought it was a rather "muddy point" then on the list page, below, go ahead and ask a question. Anyone can answer: either myself or any other student can answer. I will of course tweek everyone's answers to make them clear and check they are correct.
Podcasts
Past Exams
Course Text
The mandatory text is by Palais:
An optional reference is Saleh & Teich; this is the Bible and is worth getting if you see your career here:
Your Lecturer
- Prof Derek Abbott
External Links
- Completing the square at Wikipedia
- Java Applet illustrating negative frequency
- Convolution animation
- Essential coding theory at MIT
- Information theory at Wikipedia
- Modulation at Wikipedia
- Map of the world showing TV formats
- Conditional probability
