Competences and skills
-Acquire skills for understanding new technologies involved in optical networks and their appropriate use and integration to solve new problems or applications.
-Knowing the capabilities of new photonic components to improve the performance of optical networks such as routers, switches, amplifiers.
-Ability to handle optical networks design tools.
-Ability to develop effective information search and to identify the state of the art technology in optical networks and their possible application in new systems.
-Knowing the state of the art and future trends in optical networking technologies.
Learning results
- Identifying the technologies commonly used in different types of optical networks.
-Design Circuits or subsystems capable of combining functions to manipulate light such as: modulation , filtering , multiplexing, switching , amplification and beam splitting .
-Choose the right technology depending on the specifications of the physical layer in optical networks.
-Knowing some basic measurement techniques for the characterization of optical networks.
-Usage of specific tools for designing optical networks.
- Knowledge of optical integrated circuits as key elements in optical networks.
-To know the latest advances in various technologies of optical networks.