Post Graduate Engineering Education from Home for Optical Networking Laboratory during COVID19 Second Wave in India

Effective Teaching learning process must be very difficult in this COVID19 era for engineering teachers where they need support of hardware to explain certain fundamental things. Optical networking is one subject where it is difficult to explain certain results without experimental analysis. This paper describes basic optical networking experiments like Wavelength Division Multiplexing types of Passive Optical Network (WDM-PON), Time Division Multiplexing types of Passive Optical Network (TDM-PON), Fiber to the Home Network (FTTH), Wireless passive Optical Network using free space optics (FSO) techniques. Optsim 5.0 software is used to simulate the applications.