Prof. Pierluigi Poggiolini

• The optical system topics are fully covered by the material (handouts) provided by the teachers, both for the lectures and the design problems. All such material will be available on the website prior to classes.

Argomenti del programma: These are the main topics of the course: • Introduction to optical communication systems • System level description of the key optoelectronic components for optical fiber communications • semiconductor lasers • external modulators • optical filters • optical amplifiers • optoelectronic receivers based on photodiodes • Linear and non-linear propagation effects in single-mode optical fibers • chromatic dispersion •…

• P. Poggiolini and M. Visintin, Class Notes on Signal Analysis and Processing (downloadable from the course portal).

Argomenti del programma: Topics dealt with in the class: - Signal classification; energy and power (0.4 CFU) - Linear and inner-product spaces, signal spaces, signal canonical representation and approximants (0.8 CFU) - Fourier series and transform (0.8 CFU) - Linear Time Invariant (LTI) systems, impulse response and transfer function (1 CFU) - Analytic (complex) signals and systems representation (0.4 CFU).

• Teacher’s material, available on the course web portal.

Argomenti del programma: Part I – Introduction and modelling of information sources and source coding (6 hours) Part II – Pulse Amplitude Modulation over AWGN channel (22 hours) • Digital transmission through AWGN channel (Pulse modulation and geometric representation - Matched filter demodulator - Probability of error in AWGN) • Digital PAM transmission through bandlimited AWGN channel, ISI and eye diagram Part III – Digital transmission…