274. Fiber Optic System Design (4 units)
Lecture, four hours; outside study, nine hours. Requisite: Courses 173L and/or 174. Top-down introduction to physical layer design fiber optic communication systems, including Telecom, Datacom, and CATV. Fundamentals of digital and anolog 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.
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