CWDM & DWDM Systems

Prerequisites:

Course Description:

This 3-day courses is intended for Managers and engineers in telecoms companies keen to keep up to date with the fast moving developments in fibre optics in the core network. Also other delegates from Sales and marketing personnel for telecoms companies, Product managers and marketing personnel for optical fibre component manufacturers, and Contractors to telecoms companies who must be aware of industry developments, can attend.

This course includes the following modules:

Dispersion Basics

• Principles & compensation of chromatic dispersion & PMD

Chromatic Dispersion

• Principles & specifications

Spectral Attenuation Testing

• Measurement principles
• Problems
• Procedures & calibration

Introduction

• Telecommunications past, present & future

Light & Optical Fibre Basics

• SI units
• Electromagnetic spectrum
• Light propagation in fibres

Optical Fibre Design

• Physical structure
• Refractive index profile
• Mode field diameter

Signals & Communication

• Transmission principles
• Signal modulation

Multiplexing basics

• Principles
• Amplifiers
• TDM
• WDM
• DWDM & CWDM

CWDM Basics

• Advantages of CWDM
• G656 fibres and topologies

CWDM & DWDM Networks

• The All-Optical Network
• Requirements
• Topologies
• The future

Photonics Components

• Basic components
• DWDMs & interleavers
• Add/drop multiplexers
• Amplifiers
• Transmitters & modulators
• Wavelength converters
• MEMS

Attenuation & Loss

• Principles
• Transmission windows
• Fibre amplifiers