OTR - Optical Transmitters and Receivers

  • Type: Lecture (L) + Tutorial (T)
  • Semester: Winter Term
  • Place:

    In person in WS 2025/26:
    Building 30.10, IPQ seminar room 3.42
  • Time:

    Tue  08:00-09:30 (L)
    Fri   09:45-11:15 (L)
    Fri   11:30-13:00 (T)

    During the lecture the actual use of these time slots will be announced, see also the link "Time table" on this page.
    Dates for the exam can be found under Exams. 
  • Start: Tue 28.10.2025 (L), Fri 31.10.2025 (L), Fri 07.11.2025 (T)
  • Lecturer:

    Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Freude
    Tutorial:
    Christian Bremauer, M.Sc.
    Sina Foroutan-Barenji, M.Sc.
  • SWS: 2 (+2)
  • Ects: 6 LP
  • Lv-No.: 2309460 (L)
  • Information:

    2309461 (T)
Links

Attention:

Actual lecture dates are subject to change. More information is provided in the seperately downloadable time table and in the lecture slides, and will also be announced during the lectures.

Language:

English

Overview

Optical Transmitters and Receivers - Lecture Notes

Lecture Notes (October 14, 2025, 22.3 MB)
Lecture Slides (October 14, 2025, 49.3 MB)

The download of these zip files is guaranteed to be safe, just tell your browser accordingly when it complains. Google Chrome behaves especially weird, you need to right-click on the download link and select "Save link as" ("Link speichern unter").
The password for opening the lecture notes can be obtained through Prof. Freude.

Contents:

  • Optical communication concepts
  • Transmitters

            - Light sources

            - Modulators

  • Optical amplifiers
  • Receivers

            - Pin photodiode

            - Noise

- Detection errors		  

Tutorials

Software

 

OTR Tutorial Problem Sets & Solutions
  Name Date Size
PDF Timetable Tutorial.pdf 2025-10-31 14:06 30.71 KB
PDF OTR_Tutorial01.pdf 2025-10-31 14:04 74.48 KB