1. Study Topics The following slides contain references to introductory articles as initial background reading.

2. CDROMs in Library Introduction to Fiber Optic Theory and Fiber Structure Fiber Optic Cable Fiber Optic Connectors, Connectorization and Patch Panels Fiber Optic Testing, Troubleshooting and Documentation Fiber Optic Applications Fiber Optic LEDs, Lasers, and Detectors Fiber Optic Couplers, Switches, and Isolators Fiber Optic Installation Fiber Optic Safety Plastic Optical Fiber Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing Fiber Optic System Design History of Fiber Optics Fiber Optic Splicing and Splice Closures

3. Topics MEMS Receivers Transmitters Optical Amplifiers Planar Waveguides Gigabit Ethernet WDM Fibres Solitons Multiplexing Measurements Optical PONs Optical packet switching Component manufacture AWGs ROADMs Optical Cross Connects Photonic Crystals MANs and WANs

4. MEMS –Silicon Micromachines for Lightwave Networks: Little Machines with a Big Future, OPN Trends 1 14-15 (2001) –Lightwave Micromachines for Optical Networks, Optics & Photonics News 12-3 60- 65 (2001) –Tunable MEMS Devices for Optical Networks, Optics & Photonics News 14-3 42-49 (2003)

5. Tx/Rx –VCSELs Go the Distance, Optics & Photonics News 13-3 44-47 (2002) –Coarse WDM Transceivers, Optics & Photonics News 13-3 S-8 (2002) –Photodiode Front Ends, Optics & Photonics News 12-4 44-47 (2001) –Novel Fiber Lasers and Applications, Optics & Photonics News, 14-3 38-41 (2003)

6. Optical Amplifiers –Broadband Raman Amplifiers, Optics & Photonics News 13-7 52-56 –The Role of Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers, Optics & Photonics News 12-3 36-43 (2001) –Evolution of Optical Amplifiers, Optics & Photonics News 13-8 36-39 (2002) –The Dynamics of Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers: Modeling and Applications Optics & Photonics News 14-7 42-48 (2003)

7. Planar Waveguides

8. Gigabit Ethernet –Gigabit ethernet technology and applications, Mark Norris, Boston, Mass., London, Artech House, 2003, 004.68 NOR

9. WDM –The Processing Power of Light, Optics & Photonics News 13-3 38-43 (2002) –Multiple Optical Carrier Generation From a A Supercontinuum Source, Optics & Photonics News 13-3 48-52 (2002) –Lambda-Level Mesh Networks, Optics & Photonics News 12-6 40-43 (2001) –The future of wavelength-division multiplexing, OPN Trends 1 4 (2001) –WDM Terabit Technologies with High Spectral Efficiency, Optics & Photonics News 12-3 56-59 (2001)

10. WDM –The Evolution of SONET/SDH Over WDM, Optics & Photonics News 14-3 32-37 (2003)

11. Fibres –Too much Fibre?, Optics & Photonics News 13-3 32-37 (2002) –Chromatic Dispersion and Polarization-Mode Dispersion: Managing Key Limitations in Optical Communication Systems, Optics & Photonics News 13-3 S-16 (2002) –The Fibre Story, OPN Trends 1 20-23 (2001)

12. Solitons –Optical Solitons in Fibres, Optics & Photonics News 13-2 33-37 (2002) –Govind P. Agrawal, “Fiber-optic communication systems”, 3 rd edition – John Wiley & Sons, 2002

13. Multiplexing –Ultrahigh-Speed Optical Time-Division Multiplexing Transmission, OPN Trends 1 16- 19 (2001) –Optical Code-Division Multiplexing, Optics & Photonics News 12-3 50-55 (2001)

14. Measurements –New Developments in the Analysis of High- Speed Optical Communication Signals, Optics & Photonics News 13-3 S-4 (2002) –Optical Metrology for WDM, Optics & Photonics News 12-3 44-49 (2001) –Testing DWDM components for Loss and Dispersion Optics & Photonics News 14-7 36- 41 (2003)

15. PONs –Fibre to the Home: Why “the Last Mile” is Truly the Hardest, Optics & Photonics News, 14-3 26-31 (2003)

16. Optical Packet Switching –All-optical Label Swapping for the Future Internet, Optics & Photonics News 13-3 22-25 (2002)

17. Component Manufacture –Reliability Methodologies for Fibre-Optic Components, Optics & Photonics News 13-5 34-39 (2002)

18. Arrayed Waveguides –Arrayed Waveguide Grating Technology, Optics & Photonics News 13-6 38-43 (2002)

19. ROADMs

20. Optical Cross Connects

21. Photonic Crystals –Microstructured Optical Fibres, Optics & Photonics News 13-9 38-43 (2002) –Nonlinear Photonic Crystals, Optics & Photonics News 13-7 48-51 (2002) –Photonic Crystals: An Engineering Perspective, Optics & Photonics News 13-6 16-19 (2002) –Photonic Crystal Fibres: New Solution in Fibre Optics, Optics & Photonics News 13-3 26-31 (2002)

22. MANs and WANs –Developing Efficient, High-Capacity Metropolitan Area Networks, OPN Trends 1 8- 13 (2001) –Global Undersea Cable Networks, Optics & Photonics News 12-3 32-35 (2001)

23. Tunable Lasers –Ramaswami, Sivarajan - Optical Networks pages 178-186 –Photonics Spectra Sept 2002, Pages 75-80 - Widely Tunable Lasers Ready to Lock and Roll, Annie Lindstrom (freelance journalist) –Fibresystems Europe June 2002, Page 42 - Tunable VCSELs eye up metro and access –Fibresystems Europe April 2002, Pages 24-26 - Tunable lasers lock on as opportunity knocks, Jens Buus, Gayton Photonics. –Europhotonics Aug/Sept 2002, Pages 48-49 - Tunable laser applications take different routes, Kevin Affolter, Agility Communications.