Expand this Topic clickable element to expand a topic
Skip to content
Optica Publishing Group
  • Fifteenth Conference on Education and Training in Optics and Photonics: ETOP 2019
  • ETOP 2019 Papers (Optica Publishing Group, 2019),
  • paper 11143_4

Creation of an Electrical Engineering course: Design and simulation of high capacity fiber optic systems utilizing VPI-Photonics

Open Access Open Access

Abstract

In recent years, the importance of training skillful fiber optic engineers capable of designing and analyzing fiber optic links to deliver the enormous capacity needed for the next generation of mobile phones (5G) has been proven in industry. A comprehensive curriculum for such courses should undoubtedly comprise both theoretical and hands-on skills to better prepare the engineers before entering industry. The hands-on skills can be established through experimenting with real fiber optic links. However, having access to an equipped fiber optic laboratory imposes a significant cost to the academic institutions. Therefore, similar hands-on experiences can be delivered by software simulation of the physical signal generation and propagation. Thus, identifying an efficient yet powerful tool in simulating fiber optics components and devices is of utmost importance toward successfully rendering an understanding of the physical phenomena to the graduates. This paper aims to analyze the necessity of incorporating hands-on experience through software simulation and then it suggests the course topics and the learning outcomes expected to be achieved from this course. In addition, it investigates the feedbacks obtained from graduate engineering students throughout an actual course offered on fiber optic communication and demonstrates the assessment of the strength and weaknesses of the method. Finally, it introduces a powerful software package capable of simulating a variety of optical systems and devices frequently used in a typical fiber optic link and presents the performance analysis of this software package in addressing primitive and complex problems arising in fiber optics.

© 2019 SPIE, ICO, IEEE, OSA

PDF Article
More Like This
Thematic course design for an undergraduate photonics engineering course

Barry L. Shoop
EMA7 Education and Training in Optics and Photonics (ETOP) 2009

A joint Electrical Engineering/Physics course sequence for optics fundamentals and design

R. Magnusson, T. A. Maldonado, and T. D. Black
NTE200 Education and Training in Optics and Photonics (ETOP) 1999

VPIsystems Industry Training Program on Computer-Aided Design of Fiber-optic Communication Systems

Andre Richter and David K. C. Chan
GNICWBCALIII432 Education and Training in Optics and Photonics (ETOP) 2001

Select as filters


Select Topics Cancel
© Copyright 2024 | Optica Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved