OTR - Optical Transmitters and Receivers

  • Type: Lecture (L) + Tutorial (T)
  • Semester: Winter Term
  • Place:

    In person in WS 2024/25:
    Building 30.10, IPQ seminar room 3.42

  • Time:

    Tue  08:00-09:30 (L)
    Fri   9:45-11:15 (L)
    Fri   11:30-13:00 (T)

    During the lecture the actual use of these time slots will be announced, see also the link "Time table" on this page.
    Dates for the exam can be found under Exams

  • Start: Tue 22.10.2024 (L), Fri 25.10.2024 (L), Fri 08.11.2024 (T)
  • Lecturer:

    Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Freude
    Tutorial:
    Christian Bremauer, M.Sc.
    Mohamed Kelany, M.Sc.

  • SWS: 2 (+2)
  • Ects: 6 LP
  • Lv-No.: 2309460 (L)
  • Information:

    2309461 (T)

Attention:

Actual lecture dates are subject to change. More information is provided in the seperately downloadable time table and in the lecture slides, and will also be announced during the lectures.

Language:

English

Overview

Optical Transmitters and Receivers - Lecture Notes

Lecture Notes (October 11, 2024, 22.3 MB)
Lecture Slides (October 12, 2024, 48.9 MB)

The download of these zip files is guaranteed to be safe, just tell your browser accordingly when it complains. Google Chrome behaves especially weird, you need to right-click on the download link and select "Save link as" ("Link speichern unter").
The password for opening the lecture notes can be obtained through Prof. Freude.

Contents:

  • Optical communication concepts
  • Transmitters

            - Light sources

            - Modulators

  • Optical amplifiers
  • Receivers

            - Pin photodiode

            - Noise

- Detection errors
 

Tutorials

Software

 

OTR Tutorial Problem Sets & Solutions
  Name Date Size
PDF OTR_SemiconductorBasics.pdf 2024-12-16 10:18 1.34 MB
PDF OTR_Tutorial01.pdf 2024-10-25 14:40 74.77 KB
PDF OTR_Tutorial02.pdf 2024-11-11 10:09 413.24 KB
PDF OTR_Tutorial03.pdf 2024-11-13 09:16 264.45 KB
PDF OTR_Tutorial04.pdf 2024-11-22 23:36 156.92 KB
PDF OTR_Tutorial05.pdf 2024-11-27 09:31 193.72 KB
PDF OTR_Tutorial06.pdf 2024-12-12 09:59 174.24 KB
PDF Timetable Tutorial.pdf 2024-11-04 09:57 30.83 KB