Course Name: Advanced DWDM

Duration: Three days

Course objective:

1. Upon completing the course, the participant will be able to:

2. Understand advanced optical communications topics.

3. Explain advanced DWDM Network Designs and Engineering.

4. Design and evaluate optical components in a DWDM network

5. Learn about the effects of noise in signal propagation, especially from OSNR and BER perspectives.

6. Classify and design DWDM networks based on size and performance.

Prerequisites:
Technical managers, consultants, communications professionals, software engineers, system Engineers, network
professionals, IT professionals and others who plan working with SONET/SDH,DWDM and optical networks

Course Contents
Day 1:

1. Introduction
1.1. Advantages and disadvantages of optical transmission
1.2. History of optical transmission
2. Wave Propagation through Fibers: Non-Linear Regimes
2.1. Types of fiber
2.2. Attenuation and dispersion
2.3. Effective length/area
2.4. Brillouiin/Raman scattering
2.5. Four-wave mixing
2.6. Self-/Cross-Phase Modulation (SPM/XPM)

3. Passive Transmission Devices

3.1. Couplers / Splitters
3.2. Isolators / Circulators
3.3. Gratings
3.4. Fabry - Perot filter (FSR, Finesse)
3.5. Mach - Zehnder interferometers
3.6. Arrayed Waveguide Gratings (AWGs)

4. Coherent DWDM Technology

4.1. Coherent detection
4.2. Coherent Super-Channels
4.3. DWDM “Speed Limits”—10Gb/s and 100Gb/s Channels
4.4. High order amplitude/phase modulation
4.5. Transport Capability in 10G/40G to 100G Client interfaces
4.6. 100-Gbps DP-QPSK implementation
4.7. Beyond 100 Gbps
4.8. Non-Linear issues with Coherent DWDM
4.9. Building on the foundation
Day 2:

1. Optical Transport Network (OTN)

1.1. Advantages of Optical Transport Network (OTN) layer
1.2. OTN 101
1.3. Network Application / ALU OTN Support
1.4. OTN Hi h OTN Hierarchy / ODUflex
1.5. Generic Mapping Procedure
1.6. Next steps in OTN Stand darization

2. Dispersion in Optical Fibers

2.1. Chromatic Dispersion (CD)
2.2. Polarization Mode Dispersion (PMD)
2.3. PMD Measurement Methods
2.4. ROADM based network architecture
3. Active Transmission Devices
3.1. Erbium-doped and Raman fiber amplifiers
3.2. Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (SOAs).
3.3. Transmitters: Lasers, distributed-feedback lasers, mode-locked lasers
3.4. LEDs
4. More on Active Transmission Devices
4.1. Direct and external modulation
4.2. Detectors: Photo detectors and photodiodes
4.3. Optical switches
4.4.Wavelength converters
5. Modulation
5.1. Signal formats
5.2. Subcarrier modulation
5.3. Optical channel capacity
5.4. Demodulation: Shot/thermal noise; ideal signal detection
5.5. Optical signal-to-noise, bit error rate
5.6. Inter symbol Interference (ISI)
5.7.Coherent detection

Day 3:

1. DWDM Network Architecture and Design

1.1. Optical Add-Drop Multiplexers (OADMs)
1.2. Optical Cross-Connects (OXCs)
1.3. Light path Topology Design (LTD)
1.4. Routing & Wavelength Assignment (RWA), Graph coloring
2. More on DWDM Network Architecture
2.1. Network survivability
2.2. SONET rings
2.3. Optical protection, reliability (MTBF, MTTR).
2.4. Optical control and management
2.5. Performance management, optical overhead.
2.6. Optical Transport Network (OTN)

3. Point-to-Point Links
3.1. Optical link budgets, margin
3.2. Power penalties, maximum transmit power
3.3. Dispersion compensation
3.4. Amplifier cascades

4. Client Layers
 4.1. SONET/SDH
4.2. ATM
4.3. IP
4.4. HFC
4.5. FTTC

5. Deployment Considerations
5.1. ITU standards
5.2. Undersea cable

6. OSNR Monitoring Technique

6.1. Concept and principle
6.2. Precaution in Installation and Operations phase
7. Emerging and Future DWDM Systems
7.1. Photonic packet switching
7.2. OTDM

Course Evaluation/Q&A Session

Maximum Attendees per batch: 15