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Home / Graduate Programs / Courses / Free-Space Optical Communications Systems

ECE 536A

Free-Space Optical Communications Systems

Fall
Required Course:
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Course Level

Graduate

Units

3

Course Texts

Reference Textbooks (not required) are:

  1. C. Andrews, R. L. Philips, Laser Beam Propagation through Random Media, 2nd Ed. SPIE Press, Bellingham, Washington, USA, 2005.
  2. I. B. Djordjevic, Advanced Optical and Wireless Communications Systems, Springer, Dec. 2017/Jan. 2018.

Schedule

150 minutes of lecture, 300 minutes outside of class activities

Course Description

The purpose of the course is to give students a comprehensive introduction to free-space optical communication principles. This course offers in-depth exposition on propagation effects in free-space, both outdoor and indoor as well as deep-space; channel impairments in these media including atmospheric turbulence effects and scattering effects; noise sources, channel capacity studies, advanced modulation and multiplexing techniques for free-space applications, advanced detection, and channel compensation techniques; diversity techniques, MIMO techniques, adaptive optics techniques to deal with atmospheric turbulence effects; advanced coding and coded modulation techniques; software-defined free-space optical communications, physical-layer security, and quantum free-space optical communications.

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