GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
THE OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS AND BASIC APPLICATIONS/5201330
Course Title: THE OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS AND BASIC APPLICATIONS
Credits 3 ECTS 7.5
Course Semester 2 Type of The Course Elective
COURSE INFORMATION
 -- (CATALOG CONTENT)
 -- (TEXTBOOK)
 -- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK)
 -- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES)
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- COURSE OBJECTIVES
 -- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
Student knows the concepts and types of fiber optic amplifiers,
Understands the principles of fiber optic amplifiers.
Can do fiber optic amplifier design.
 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face
 --WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week  Theory of the optical amplifiers
2. Week  Classification and design of optical amplifiers
3. Week  Basic WDM concepts
4. Week  Fiber optic measuring devices, passive and active optical materials
5. Week  Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers
6. Week  Raman Amplifiers
7. Week  Fiber amplifiers with rare earth elements.
8. Week  Fiber amplifiers with rare earth elements, Midterm exam
9. Week  Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier Theory
10. Week  Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier Applications
11. Week  Gain flattening in optical amplifiers
12. Week  Automatic gain controller of the optical amplifiers
13. Week  Design of the long haul optical communication systems
14. Week  Simulation of WDM communication systems
15. Week  
16. Week  
 -- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS
 -- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Total Weighting (%)
 Midterm Exams
1
30
 Assignment
1
30
 Application
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Percent of In-term Studies  
60
 Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score  
40
 -- WORKLOAD
 Activity  Total Number of Weeks  Duration (weekly hour)  Total Period Work Load
 Weekly Theoretical Course Hours
14
3
42
 Weekly Tutorial Hours
0
 Reading Tasks
14
3
42
 Searching in Internet and Library
12
3
36
 Material Design and Implementation
0
 Report Preparing
4
8
32
 Preparing a Presentation
2
8
16
 Presentation
1
2
2
 Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam
1
15
15
 Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam
1
15
15
 Other (should be emphasized)
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
200
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
8
 Course Credit (ECTS): 
7.5
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1X
2X
3X
4X
5X
6X
7X
8X
9X
10X
11X
12X
13X
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
   (Prof. Dr. Murat YÜCEL)
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (http://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/muyucel)
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (muyucel@gazi.edu.tr)