440-4211/01 – Optical Atmospheric Communications (OAK)

Gurantor departmentDepartment of TelecommunicationsCredits4
Subject guarantordoc. Ing. Jan Nedoma, Ph.D.Subject version guarantordoc. Ing. Jan Nedoma, Ph.D.
Study levelundergraduate or graduateRequirementOptional
Year2Semesterwinter
Study languageCzech
Year of introduction2010/2011Year of cancellation2023/2024
Intended for the facultiesFEIIntended for study typesFollow-up Master
Instruction secured by
LoginNameTuitorTeacher giving lectures
HEJ085 Ing. Stanislav Hejduk, Ph.D.
NED086 doc. Ing. Jan Nedoma, Ph.D.
Extent of instruction for forms of study
Form of studyWay of compl.Extent
Full-time Credit and Examination 3+1
Part-time Credit and Examination 2+6

Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences

Understand the basic principles of optical atmospheric communication and their differences in comparison to fiber optical communications. Learning outcomes are set so that the students are able to identify and apply tasks in the field of optoelectronics and fiberless commnucations.

Teaching methods

Lectures
Tutorials
Experimental work in labs

Summary

Subject deals with optical communications in free space. Attention is dedicated to directional optical connections and ordinary diffusion optical nets. Significant part content is orientated to IrDa transmission. Basic technologies will be described together with devices, properties of optical communications systems and influence of atmosphere on transmission signals.

Compulsory literature:

LAMBERT, S. G. a W. L. CASEY. Laser communications in space. Boston: Artech House, c1995 - xix, 390 s. ISBN 0-89006-722-8. RAMIREZ-INIGUEZ, R., S. M. IDRUS a Z. SUN. Optical wireless communications: IR for wireless connectivity. Boca Raton: CRC Press, c2008 - xxxi, 344 s. ISBN 978-0-8493-7209-4. HEMMATI, H. Deep space optical communications. Hoboken: Wiley, c2006. ISBN 0-470-04002-5.

Recommended literature:

ANDERSON, D. R., L. JOHNSON a F. G. BELL. Troubleshooting Optical fiber networks. Elsevier Academic Press, USA, 2004. ISBN 0-12-0586614. SALEH, B. E. A. a M. C. TEICH. Fundamentals of Photonics. New Yersey: Wiley and Sons, 2007. ISBN 978-0-471-35832-9. BURES, J. Guided Optics. Wieheim: Wiley and Sons, 2009. ISBN 978-3-527-407796-5.

Additional study materials

Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester

Two test during theoretical excercises.

E-learning

Other requirements

The condition for credit obtaining is the handover of all reports from laboratory measurements and the successful management of two tests.

Prerequisities

Subject has no prerequisities.

Co-requisities

Subject has no co-requisities.

Subject syllabus:

- Introduction - technology overview, system configuration, history of ir communication systems, optical fiberless channel, attenuation budget - Atmosphere as a transmission medium - atmosphere properties and its influence to transmission properties, attenuation effects in atmosphere, scintillation - Safety rules by atmospherical communications - influence of parasitic lights on transmission, the influence of sunshine, multi ray dispersion, characteristics of the human eye, laser classes, holographic diffusers, comparison of LD and LED, specialties of outside communication systems - Introduction of optical concentrators - elements of ray optics, fundamentals of energy optics, Fermat principle, polarisation of light - Optical concentrators - concentrator overview, demands on ir receivers, optical filters, ideal concentrator, fresnel lenses, hemispherical concentrators, parabolic concentrators, - Dielectrical concentrators based on total reflection, - characteristics, geometrical amplification, maximum of acceptance angle, concentrator comparison, another shape of concentrators with total reflection - Optical transmitters for fiberless communications,- basics of transmitter design, optical demands to optical sources, types of optical modulators, driver circuits for optical transmitters, timing circuits, control of transmitting power - Optical receivers for fiberless communications - basics of receiver design, selection of detectors, receiver noises, BER and receiver sensitivity, BW of the optical receiver, signal amplifiers, - Modulation, coding, multiple usage of transmission media - analog, pulse, and digital modulation, types of modulation and their sensitivity to noises of communication channel, access techniques to atmospherical channel - IrDA protocols - standards of fiberless transmissions, an overview of IrDA standards, protocols for the physical layer, IrLM protocol, IA3 protocol, Tiny T protocol - Introduction of Ir networks - network architecture, specification of optical fiberless networks, Ad hoc networks, QoS of fiberless optical networks, future trends in optical atmospherical communications

Conditions for subject completion

Part-time form (validity from: 2010/2011 Summer semester, validity until: 2016/2017 Winter semester)
Task nameType of taskMax. number of points
(act. for subtasks)
Min. number of pointsMax. počet pokusů
Exercises evaluation and Examination Credit and Examination 100 (100) 51
        Exercises evaluation Credit 40 (40) 20
                Tutoriál Other task type 10  0
                Projekt Project 10  0
                Test Written test 20  0
        Examination Examination 60  11 3
Mandatory attendence participation: 80% attendance at the tutorials

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