Course Syllabus

Spring 2001

Professor C. D. Cantrell, UT-Dallas

Textbooks:

Required: Nonlinear Fiber Optics, Second Edition, by Professor Govind P. Agrawal. Published by Academic Press (ISBN 0120451425).

Recommended: Fiber-Optic Communication Systems, Second Edition, by Professor Govind P. Agrawal. Published by Academic Press (ISBN 0471175404).

Target Audience:

• This course is recommended for all engineers and physicists who need a quantitative understanding of nonlinear optics in order to design or analyze fiberoptic communication systems.

Overall goals of EE 6328:

• Acquire an overall understanding of the origin, magnitude and importance of nonlinear optical effects
• Become sufficiently well acquainted with the principles of nonlinear optics to be able to make intelligent use of numerical tools for designing and simulating fiberoptic communication systems

Syllabus:

1. Overview of Nonlinear Optics
2. Wave Propagation in Optical Fibers
3. Group-Velocity Dispersion
4. The Third-Order Nonlinear Susceptibility
5. Self-Phase Modulation
6. Optical Solitons and Optical Pulse Compression
7. Cross-Phase Modulation
8. Stimulated Raman Scattering
9. Stimulated Brillouin Scattering
10. Four-Wave Mixing
11. Nonlinearities of the two-level system