Optical Fibers-Basics; Telecommunications and Fiber Optics; Optical Fiber Waveguides; Fabrication, Cabling, Installation; Light Sources, Transmitters and Receivers; Components of Fiber-Optic Networks; Passive Components, Switches, Transceivers, WDM and DWDM systems, SDH Systems, FDDI, and Functional Modules of Fiber-Optic Networks-Telephone and Computer Networks, Networks, Protocols, and Services, OSI, SONET, ATM Networks and Layers; Broadband Communication System, Submarine Cable Networks, Applications and Future Developments. Mandatory Lab.