Fiber optic technology

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• Fundamentals
  - Plane wave, polarization, beam wave
  - Reflection and refraction, total internal reflection
• Waveguiding structures
  - Multiple layers
  - Film waveguides
  - Step index fiber
  - Field distributions and modes
  - Attenuation, dispersion, fiber design
• Nonlinear effects
• Passive fiber optic components
  - Coupling, phase space diagram
  - Fiber couplers
  - Grating, photonic bandgap
  - Interferometer
  - Photonic crystals

This lecture is part of the module "Optical Communications Engineering", which takes place in the winter semester.
For didactic reasons, this course takes place in the first half of the semester at the same time as the lectures and exercises of "Optical Fiber Technology" and "Optical Broadband Communication".
The lecture "Optical broadband communication" is offered in the second half of the semester.