Electrical Engineering 118

Title	Introduction to Optical Engineering
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.
Course Guide	Course Guide

Sections	Instructor	Teaching Effectiveness	How worthwhile was this course?
Fall 2023	Boubacar Kante	5.6 / 7	5.2 / 7
Fall 2022	Boubacar Kante	3.5 / 7	5.0 / 7
Fall 2020	Boubacar Kante	5.0 / 7	4.6 / 7
Fall 2019	Boubacar Kante	3.3 / 7	3.6 / 7
Spring 2019	Laura Waller	5.3 / 7	5.4 / 7
Fall 2017	Laura Waller	5.7 / 7	4.9 / 7
Fall 2016	Laura Waller	4.6 / 7	4.4 / 7
Fall 2015	Laura Waller	6.6 / 7	6.9 / 7
Fall 2014	Laura Waller	4.5 / 7	5.0 / 7
Spring 2014	Laura Waller	5.5 / 7	5.6 / 7
Spring 2004	Ture K. Gustafson	4.1 / 7	4.7 / 7
Spring 2003	Ture K. Gustafson	4.9 / 7	4.7 / 7
Spring 2002	Ture K. Gustafson	4.1 / 7	4.3 / 7
Spring 2001	Ture K. Gustafson	4.2 / 7	4.0 / 7
Spring 2000	Ture K. Gustafson	3.8 / 7	4.3 / 7
Spring 1997	Ture K. Gustafson	6.0 / 7	5.5 / 7
Spring 1996	Ture K. Gustafson	5.6 / 7	5.6 / 7
Spring 1995	Ture K. Gustafson	5.5 / 7	4.5 / 7
Spring 1994	Ture K. Gustafson	4.0 / 7	3.9 / 7
Spring 1993	Ture K. Gustafson	4.7 / 7	5.0 / 7
Spring 1992	Ture K. Gustafson	4.8 / 7	5.2 / 7
Fall 1990	Ture K. Gustafson	4.6 / 7	4.6 / 7
Fall 1989	Ture K. Gustafson	5.0 / 7	4.8 / 7
Spring 1989	John R. Whinnery	5.0 / 7	4.7 / 7
Spring 1989	Theodore Van Duzer	5.0 / 7	5.1 / 7
Overall Rating		Teaching Effectiveness	How worthwhile was this course?