Carrying out studies on fiber-optic communication systems, namely fiber-optics, optical transmitters, optical detectors, analog and digital transmission design aspects, to global and local optical networks. Knowledge of the structure, materials and fabrication of optical fibers, signal degradation in optical fibers, splicing, coupling, ability to calculate link budgets and understand the concept of multiplexing in optical systems, WDM technology, as well as optical amplifiers, local and global optical network architecture and applications.