Understanding Lasers and Fiberoptics - Fiberoptics Fundamentals

Fiberoptics Fundamentals
Instructor: Shaoul Ezekiel

Topics covered:
- Why the interest in fiberoptics
- How light propagates in an optical fiber
- What determines the loss in a fiber
- Single mode and multimode propagation
- Single polarization fiber
- Fiber amplifier operation
- Fiberoptics applications in sensors and communications
- Future developments

View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/RES-6-005S08 

credit

Shaoul Ezekiel and MIT OpenCourseWare

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OpenCourseWare