RES.6-005 | Spring 2008 | Undergraduate

Understanding Lasers and Fiberoptics

Fiberoptics Fundamentals

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