Electrical Engineering 118

Title	Introduction to Optical Communication Systems and Networks
Instructor in Charge	Ture K. Gustafson
Units	3
Prerequisites	20 and 40.
Description	Basic principles of digital and analog optical communications and optical networks. Emphasis is on principles of optical links, including channel capacity, basic limitations due to noise processes, and bit error rate requirements. Optical amplification, the detector-receiver, optical fiber and free-space propagation, the transmitter, and modulation schemes. Coherent and incoherent communications and network systems. Basic optical Fourier transform signal processing techniques.
Newsgroup	ucb.class.ee118

Sections	Instructor	Teaching Effectiveness			How worthwhile was this course?
Spring 2004	Gustafson	4.1	/ 7 ± 1.0		4.7	/ 7 ± 1.5
Spring 2003	Gustafson	4.9	/ 7 ± 1.0		4.7	/ 7 ± 0.9
Spring 2002	Gustafson	4.1	/ 7 ± 0.8		4.3	/ 7 ± 1.0
Spring 2001	Gustafson	4.2	/ 7 ± 0.7		4.0	/ 7 ± 0.8
Spring 2000	Gustafson	3.8	/ 7 ± 1.6		4.3	/ 7 ± 1.6
Spring 1997	Gustafson	6.0	/ 7 ± 0.0		5.5	/ 7 ± 1.0
Spring 1996	Gustafson	5.6	/ 7 ± 1.4		5.6	/ 7 ± 0.6
Spring 1995	Gustafson	5.5	/ 7 ± 1.0		4.5	/ 7 ± 1.3
Spring 1994	Gustafson	4.0	/ 7 ± 0.9		3.9	/ 7 ± 1.0
Spring 1993	Gustafson	4.7	/ 7 ± 1.5		5.0	/ 7 ± 0.0
Spring 1992	Gustafson	4.8	/ 7 ± 0.5		5.2	/ 7 ± 0.4
Fall 1990	Gustafson	4.6	/ 7 ± 0.8		4.6	/ 7 ± 0.7
Fall 1989	Gustafson	5.0	/ 7 ± 1.7		4.8	/ 7 ± 1.6
Spring 1989 Section 1	Van Duzer	5.0	/ 7 ± 1.1		5.1	/ 7 ± 1.2
Spring 1989 Section 2	Whinnery	5.0	/ 7 ± 1.2		4.7	/ 7 ± 1.4
Overall Rating		Teaching Effectiveness			How worthwhile was this course?
Electrical Engineering 118		4.6	/ 7 ± 0.1		4.6	/ 7 ± 0.1

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