Understanding Fiberoptics Technology

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  1. Telecom basics:
       Why optical fiber works, why it's
       better than copper, how WDM works.
2.  Basics of optics:
        Nature of light; refractive index,
        dispersion and birefringence; Snell's
        law; total internal reflection;
        polarization; optical interference,
        Young's experiment, Fabry-Perot
        interferometer, diffraction gratings,
        Mach-Zehnder interferometer.

Numerous computer
animations help students understand concepts.

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