ECE 770 Topic 6 - Winter 2017

ECE 770 Topic 6 - Photonic Communication Systems and Devices

Instructor

Professor Hamed Majedi, E5 4009, telephone 519 888 4567 extension 37443, email: ahmajedi@uwaterloo.ca

Lecture Schedule

Tuesdays and Thursdays 4:00pm to 5:20pm in EIT 3145.

Main text

Material taught in this course and assignments provided are from the following textbook:

  • Gerd Keiser, “Optical Fiber Communications”, McGrawHill, 4th edition, 2011

Other suggested texts

  1. A. Yariv and P. Yeh, “Photonics”, Sixth edition, Oxford, 2007.
  2. B.E.A. Saleh and M.C. Teich,”Fundamentals of Photonics”, John Wiley & Sons, Second edition, 2007

Course assignments

Problem sets will be given gradually at the end of each chapter. The solutions will be posted on the website.

Course material and online resources

All course material, including notes, problem sets and their solution, announcements, marks, are posted on the course page on Learn.

Course requirement

  • Assignments - 30%
  • Lab - 20%
  • Final Exam - 50%