Course Name: Statistical Optical Communications
Course Number: 25169
Prerequisite(s): -
Co-requisite(s): -
Units: 3
Level: Postgraduate

Description: 
The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with optical fields, transmitters, and receivers, optical communications, and optical channels.
 
Syllabus:

• Introduction
• Optical Fields
  • Diffraction Integrals
  • Field Focusing
• Optical Random Fields
  • Coherency
  • Orthogonal Decomposition
• Optical Transmitters
  • Thermal Light
  • Coherent Light
• Optical Receivers
  • Photo-detection
  • Shot Noise
• Optical Communications
  • Direct Detection
  • On-Off Keying
• Optical Channels
  • Optical Fiber
  • Free Space

References:

• R. Gagliardi and Sh. Karp (1995), Optical Communications, John Wiley & Sons
• Joseph W. Goodman (2015), Statistical Optics, John Wiley & Sons
• Bahaa E. Saleh and Carl E. Malvin (2019), Fundamentals of Photonics, John Wiley & Sons
• G. Einarsson (1996), Principles of Lightwave Communications, John Wiley & Sons