CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING EE 150b: Optical Networks Fall 2001 _________________________________________________________

Announcements

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Time and Place

Tuesday, Friday, 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM, 239 Moore (Campus Map)

Instructor

Professor Demetri Psaltis
262 Moore, x4856, psaltis@sunoptics.caltech.edu

Teaching Assistant

Zhenyu Li
238 Moore, x3889, zhenyu@caltech.edu

Please Click the Link for Each Topic To Get the Corresponding References.

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Books:

1. Optical Networks: A Practical Perspective, Rajiv Ramaswami & Kumar Sivarajan, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1998.
2. Fiber-Optic Communication Systems, 2nd Edition, Govind P. Agrawal, Wiley-Interscience, 1997.

Journals:

1. J. Lightwave Technol.
2. IEEE J. Quantum Electron.
3. IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.
4. Electron. Lett.
5. Opt. Lett.

Web of Science

1. How to prepare the presentation

Before each presentation, Prof. Psaltis will give us a Basic Reading, and 2-3 more References (Available on this site or hardcopies).
Everyone should read the Basic Reading in advance.
The presentor will read all the papers and perhaps more materials he or she gets from the web searching and patent searching.
The presentation should include at least three things:

• The first is the basic theory of the topic;
• The second is how this topic is related to Optical Networks: advantages and disadvantages, applications...
• The third is the topic in industry, for example, the companys that make this component, a specification of a real product, a patent on the topic...
• Finally some lastest advance or something fun about the topic should be presented.

2. Useful Websites

a. Google. General Search Engine.
b. Delphion. Patent Search Engine.
c. Light Reading. An information resource center for optical networking.
d. Web of Science. Caltech Scientific Paper Search Engine.

3. Similar Courses

a. UC Berkeley EE190Q: Optical Networks
b. USC EE558:  Optical Fiber Communication Systems

4. Web Search Tips

We'd like to hear your advice to this course and this website. Also if you have any question, please feel free to send an email to Zhenyu.