EC ENGR 274
Optical Communication and Sensing Design
Electrical and Computer Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Top-down introduction to physical layer design in fiber optic communication systems, including Telecom, Datacom, and CATV. Fundamentals of digital and analog optical communication systems, fiber transmission characteristics, and optical modulation techniques, including direct and external modulation and computer-aided design. Architectural-level design of fiber optic transceiver circuits, including preamplifier, quantizer, clock and data recovery, laser driver, and predistortion circuits.
Letter grading.
Requisites
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Requisites: courses 170A and 170B or equivalent.
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EC ENGR 274
- EC ENGR 170APrinciples of Photonics
- EC ENGR 2Physics for Electrical Engineers
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity2 more beneath
- EC ENGR 101AEngineering Electromagnetics
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