📘 Course Title
Optical Fiber Basics and Optical Transmission – From A to Z
📝 Course Description
This course provides a complete and structured introduction to optical fiber communication and optical transmission technologies, starting from telecom fundamentals and optical fiber basics, then moving into modern optical transport systems and transmission technologies.
The course explains how optical fiber works, how optical networks are built, and how data is transmitted over fiber, covering both physical fiber components and optical transport equipment such as DWDM, OTN, optical amplifiers, and multiplexers.
It is designed to give learners a solid end-to-end understanding of fiber and optical transport networks used in modern telecom infrastructures.
⏱ Course Duration
9 Hours
🎯 Target Audience
- Telecom & Communication Engineering students
- Fresh graduates
- Transmission and transport network beginners
- Fiber and optical network engineers
- Mobile and fixed network engineers
- Anyone seeking a strong foundation in optical communications
✅ Prerequisites
- No prerequisites required
🌐 Language
Arabic with English subtitles
🎯 Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Understand optical fiber principles and advantages
- Identify optical fiber types, cables, and applications
- Understand light sources, wavelengths, and optical modules
- Analyze fiber losses, dispersion, and performance limitations
- Design basic optical fiber networks
- Perform fiber testing and splicing concepts
- Understand optical transmission concepts and architectures
- Differentiate between DWDM and CWDM systems
- Understand optical multiplexers, amplifiers, and regenerators
- Understand PDH, SDH, and OTN transport technologies
- Explain protection mechanisms and optical grid types
📚 Course Content Outline
Section 1: Introduction & Telecom Revision
- Course introduction
- Telecom basics revision
Section 2: Optical Fiber Basics
- Optical fiber concepts and advantages
- Optical fiber applications
- Optical fiber working principles
- Light sources and wavelengths
- Single-mode and multi-mode fiber
- Optical fiber cable types and submarine cables
- Optical losses and dispersion
- Optical fiber connectors
- Optical module types and specifications
- Fiber optic splicing
- Optical fiber network design
- Optical fiber testing
Section 3: Optical Transmission Technologies
- Introduction to optical transmission
- Gray light vs colored light
- DWDM vs CWDM
- Bidirectional vs unidirectional transmission
- Optical Terminal Multiplexer (OTM)
- Optical Line Amplifier
- Regenerator
- Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (OADM)
- Transmission technologies overview
- PDH fundamentals and frame structure
- SDH fundamentals and frame calculations
- SDH frame structure
- Optical Transport Network (OTN) basics
- OTN frame structure
- Protection mechanisms
- Optical grid types
🚀 Course Value
- Complete Fiber + Optical Transport course in one package
- Covers physical fiber and optical transmission equipment
- Suitable for telecom, ISP, and data center networks
- Strong foundation for Transmission, Transport, and Backhaul roles
- Ideal next step after Microwave & Transmission courses