The exam for Part 1 of Optical Communications is on 9 Feb 2013
motherboard_mother-earth.doc: Classic "Wired" magazine article on submarine cabling, and the science, engineering, business, culture, history, biology and all-around geekery of optical fiber communications and hacker tourism.
Slab waveguide lecture material is available in Skew Matrix copy station at JGSOM west end. Chapter 2 The Planar Slab Waveguide from Pollock's "Fundamentals of Optoelectronics".
Chapter 3 Dispersion in Waveguides from Pollock's "Fundamentals of Optoelectronics" will be discussed in upcoming lectures.