Photonics Innovation Institute
Optical Communications: Fundamentals, Applications and Technological News
Technological Training Services for Decision-Making Professionals" are unique services intended to help in the process of planning investments in new fiber network buildings as well as upgrades. They are indeed consulting services for the telecom sector players, such as carriers, utilities, CATV operators, solution providers, manufacturers etc. Their goal is to increase the ROI and extend the lifetime of the optical network by helping making the right decisions in an environment that is fast moving technologically.
Optical Networks: Planning, Design and Trends
The course's goal is to present several topics related to current optical network technology in order to offer subsidies for network planning and designing and show technological tendencies which can affect the decision making.
Optical Communication Technology: Principles, Applications and Current Issues
We are moving towards the "lightwave web" era. This is creating a variety of new professional opportunities related to fiber optics. These opportunities range from the field technician, needed for fiber network installation and testing, to law professionals who face questions of fiber's right-of-way in power transmission lines, motorways, railways, oilducts etc. Also, marketing and sales professionals are facing growing interests in fiber and wavelength swap and leasing deals. On the other hand, the telecom industry continuously manufactures equipments and develops new optical communication technologies, demanding highly capable professionals that only excellence centers can offer. This course teaches fundamental and advanced knowledge of optical fiber communications. It is intended towards decision making professionals with and without technical background.
Chromatic Dispersion and Dispersion Compensation in Long Distance High Capacity Optical Transmission Systems
The growth of transmitted data and the appearance of new telecommunication services has been demanding ever higher transmission capacity in fiber optic links. Fiber chromatic dispersion and loss are the key obstacles to obtaining this. The emergence of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers operating in the 1550 nm region has eliminated fiber loss as a fundamental limit to achievable transmission distance and made it possible to transmit optical data over thousands of kilometers of single-mode fibers without electronic regeneration. However, the lack of intermediate regenerative repeaters causes the chromatic dispersion to build up along the entire system length, rather than just in between repeaters.
Polarization Mode Dispersion (PMD) in Optical Communications
Polarization Mode Dispersion, PMD, is a parameter of great importance in modern optical communications. It imposes limitations on both analog (CATV) and digital (telecommunication) optical systems. System designers need to understand well the subject of PMD for them to specify fibers and other components. On the other hand, fiber and cable manufacturers must develop products that satisfy the increasingly demanding specifications. Also, installation techniques have to be reviewed to guarantee that the PMD stays below acceptable levels. On the other hand, international bodies such as ITU, TIA, IEC and EU-COST have been conducting several studies, intending to create technical recommendations related to PMD.
FTTH: theoretical foundation, Technology, Network Design
Polarization Mode Dispersion (PMD) in Optical Communications
Polarization Mode Dispersion, PMD, is a parameter of great importance in modern optical communications. It imposes limitations on both analog (CATV) and digital (telecommunication) optical systems. System designers need to understand well the subject of PMD for them to specify fibers and other components. On the other hand, fiber and cable manufacturers must develop products that satisfy the increasingly demanding specifications. Also, installation techniques have to be reviewed to guarantee that the PMD stays below acceptable levels. On the other hand, international bodies such as ITU, TIA, IEC and EU-COST have been conducting several studies, intending to create technical recommendations related to PMD.