McMaster University

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

EE4EM4 Photonic Devices and Systems Engineering

 

Instructor:    Dr.  Shiva Kumar

ITBA 322, x26008, kumars@mail.ece.mcmaster.ca

 

Office hours:   Mondays and Thursdays (2:30-4:30 PM)

 

 

TAs:

1. Sina Nader Shahi  -  Contact Sina regarding tutorials. 

Office hours: Fridays 12:00-1:00 pm,  Tuesdays: 1:00-2:00 pm.

Email :  sina.naderishahi@gmail.com>

 

2. Ebrahim  Nemati

If you have questions regarding lab time or lab switching related questions, please contact the TA,

Mr. Ebrahim Nemati     e.nemati.ha@gmail.com

 

3.  Sitiravel  - sithirr@mcmaster.ca

 

4.  Jing Shao - jingshao.hust@gmail.com

 

 

Term Offered:

 

Academic Year 2011-2012, Term II

 

 

 

 

Announcements

 

Labs:

 

Lab 2 will start from Feb. 6. It will run for two weeks.

Lab sections:

L01 – L05  - week of Feb 6

L06 - L10   - week of Feb 13

If you miss it, you may not get a second chance to do it.

If you had a partner for lab 1, you should do lab 2 with the same partner.

 

 

 

Labs will start from Jan 23. Lab 1 will run for two weeks. 

Lab sections are as follows:

 

L01 – L05  - week of Jan 23

L06 - L10   - week of Jan 30

 

Please go through the material posted in the following website before doing the lab

 

http://power.mcmaster.ca/spencer/facet/Fiber_Optic_Student_Workbook.pdf

 

You will be doing the first experiment – familiarization with the kit.

 

 

Midterm

 

Midterm is on Mar. 08.

 

Location : BSB 117 and BSB 120

Time       : 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

 

 The following formula sheet will be provided at the end of the questions.

    formula sheet    

   Midterm Sample – midterm-2007

 

The final exam sample

 

               final_exam_2008

 

 The formula sheet at the end of the sample exam is same as that you would have for the final exam 2011.

 

 

TAs:

 

Mr. Ebrahim Nemati     e.nemati.ha@gmail.com

Mr. Sina Nader Shah

 

Course Outline

 

 

 

 

Lecture Notes

 

Review of electromagnetic theory

 

Optical Fiber Transmission

1  2  3  4  5  6

 

Fibers

 

 

Lasers

 

1

2* 3 4* 5 6 7

 

2*This is not covered in 2011.

 

4* Direct and indirect bandgap, radiative and nonradiative recombination – not covered in 2011.

 

Laser

 

 

 

Optical Receivers

 

1 2 3 4*

 

Shot noise and thermal noise are not covered in 2011.

 

Systems

 

1* 2 3*

 

1*  In the last page there is an error – the power spectral density is single-sided. Therefore, the noise power

     is actually P_N = S_A(f) delta f, instead of S_A(f) 2 delta f.

 

3* eye diagram, BER and wavelength division multiplexing – not covered in 2011.

 

Practice Problems

 

Electromagnetics and Optical Fiber Transmission:

1 2

Solutions

 

Lasers

 

Tutorials

 

Jan 20

 1  - Problems covered this year are 1, 4 and 5.

 2

Jan 27

1   -  Problems covered this year are 1 and 3.

2   -  Problems covered this year are 1 and 2.

Feb 3

1

Feb 10

1

Feb 17

1

Mar. 3

1

Mar. 10

1

2  - Problems 1 and 2 are covered.

Mar. 17

1

April 2: Tutorial-Review

1