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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

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