The main objective of this course is to introduce students to the fundamental concepts of optical communication systems.

• Course Objective 1: At the end of this course, students will be able to learn the fundamental principles of fiber optics; and will be able to apply them to the solution of engineering problems related to fiber modes, absorption, scattering and bending losses, and signal distortion.

• Course Objective 2: At the end of this course, students will be able to learn the fundamental principles of planar guided wave optics, second order and third order nonlinear effects in optics and photonic components.
• Course Objective 3: At the end of this course, students will be able to learn the fundamental principles of optical communication systems including system architecture, state-of-the-art techniques for high performance fiber optic systems, dispersion compensation, fiber optical amplification, fiber solitons, modulation/demodulation concepts in fibers and bit-error rate.

• Course Objective 4: At the end of this course, students will be able to apply their theoretical knowledge to conduct experiments related to fiber optical communication systems.