Course Textbook

This course does not have a required textbook.

Optional Reference Books

I refer to the following textbooks for preparing the content of the lectures in this class. You can get PDF versions of these books from the Cornell library. I have linked to the library catalog below:

Textbook 1: Optical Network Design and Planning (Second Edition), Jane M. Simmons
Textbook 2: Fiber Optic Communication Systems (Second Edition), Govind P. Agrawal
Textbook 3: Silicon Photonics Design, Lukas Chrostowski and Michael Hochberg
Textbook 4: Silicon Photonics, Graham Reed and Andrew Knights

Pistachio has read them all.

Conference Publications

We will be reading research papers from conferences in computer networking (SIGCOMM, NSDI) and optics (OFC). I will provide relevant links to the papers in the course schedule.