Juerg Leuthold: Catalogue data in Autumn Semester 2014

Name Prof. Dr. Juerg Leuthold
FieldPhotonics and Communication
Address
Professur Photonik u. Kommunikat.
ETH Zürich, ETZ K 81
Gloriastrasse 35
8092 Zürich
SWITZERLAND
Telephone+41 44 633 80 10
E-mailleuthold@ethz.ch
URLhttp://www.ief.ee.ethz.ch/people/leuthold.html
DepartmentInformation Technology and Electrical Engineering
RelationshipFull Professor

NumberTitleECTSHoursLecturers
227-0301-00LOptical Communication Fundamentals6 credits2V + 1U + 1PJ. Leuthold
AbstractTransmitters and receivers are the basic building blocks of communication links. In this lecture we discuss the path of an analog signal in the transmitter to the digital world in an optical communication link and back to the analog world at the receiver. The lecture is organized to cover the fundamentals of all important optical and optoelectronic components in a fiber communications system.
ObjectiveFundamentals of optical communications systems with an emphasis on transmitters and receivers.
ContentChapter 1: Introduction: Analog/Digital Conversion, The Communication Channel, Shannon Channel Capacity.

Chapter 2: The Transmitter: Components of a Transmitter, The Spectrum of a Signal, Optical Modulators, Modulation Formats.

Chapter 3: Signal-to-Noise Ratio, Intersymbol Interference, Electronic Coding.

Chapter 4: Multiplexing techniques (WDM/FDM, TDM, OFDM, Nyquist Multiplexing, OCDMA).

Chapter 5: Optical Amplifiers (Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers, Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifiers, Raman Amplifiers).

Chapter 6: The Receiver: pin-Photodiodes, Polarisation Demultiplexing, Phase Estimation, Clock Recovery.

Chapter 7: Noise: Noise Mechanisms, Photocurrent Noise, Thermal Noise, Electronic Amplifiers Noise, Optical Amplifier Noise.

Chapter 8: Receiver and Detector Errors: Detection Errors of On-Off Keying, Detection Errors of M-Ary Signals, Direct-, Heterodyne and Homodyne Reception.
Lecture notesLecture notes are handed out.
Prerequisites / NoticeFundamentals of Electromagnetic Fields & Bachelor Lectures on Physics (see Bsc ITET).
227-0655-00LNonlinear Optics6 credits2V + 1UJ. Leuthold
AbstractNonlinear Optics deals with the interaction of light with material, the response of material to light and the mathematical framework to describe the phenomena. As an example we will cover fundamental phenomena such as the refractive index, the electro-optic effect, second harmonic generation, four-wave mixing or soliton propagation and others.
ObjectiveThe important nonlinear optical phenomena are understood and can be classified. The effects can be described mathematical by means of the susceptibility.
ContentChapter 1: The Wave Equations in Nonlinear Optics
Chapter 2: Nonlinear Effects - An Overview
Chapter 3: The Nonlinear Optical Susceptibility
Chapter 4: Second Harmonic Generation
Chapter 5: The Electro-Optic Effect and the Electro-Optic Modulator
Chapter 6: Acousto-Optic Effect
Chapter 7: Nonlinear Effects of Third Order
Chapter 8: Nonlinear Effects in Media with Gain
LiteratureLecture notes are handed out.
Prerequisites / NoticeFundamentals of Electromagnetic Fields (Maxwell Equations) & Bachelor Lectures on Physics
227-0955-00LSeminar in Electromagnetics Information 3 credits2KJ. Leuthold, C. Hafner
AbstractSelected topics of the current research activities of the IFH and closely related institutions are discussed.
ObjectiveHave an overview on the research activities of the IFH.
227-1101-00LHow to Write Scientific Texts in Engineering Sciences
Strongly recommended prerequisite for Semester Projects and Master Theses at D-ITET (MSc BME, MSc EEIT, MSc EST).
0 creditsJ. Leuthold
AbstractThe 2 to 3 hour lecture will cover the basics of writing a scientific text. The focus will be on the structure and elements of scientific text and not on the language.
ObjectiveKnowledge on structure and content of a scientific text.
ContentTopic 1: Structure of a Scientific Text
Topic 2: The Title, the author list, the abstract, State-of-the Art, the "in this paper" paragraph, the scientific part, the summary
Topic 3: Equations, Figures
Topic 4: Citation rules
LiteratureETH "Citation Etiquette", see www.plagiate.ethz.ch.

ETH Guidlines on "Guidelines for Research Integrity", see www.ee.ethz.ch > Education > > Contacts, links & documents > Forms and documents > Brochures / guides.
Prerequisites / NoticeStudents should already have a Bachelor degree and plan to do either a semester project or a master thesis in the immediate future.