Intermediate Classroom & Lab Course - Instructor's Edition

An advanced fiber optics curriculum, for industrial arts, vocational school and university levels. Courses can be tailored in length from 10 to 15 weeks. Recommended prerequisites: a basic understanding of electronics and mathematics. Course includes a text for classroom or lecture, lab course containing a comprehensive series of student experiments and lab kit with all required components.

Part One of the classroom text places fiber optics into perspective as a transmission medium and describes its advantages over other media. Part Two examines fiber sources, detectors and connectors, in contrast to the distinctly different characteristics of their electronic counterparts. Part Three explains in detail how fiber optic systems are assembled. It covers link system design, installation, special fiber optic hardware, applications and equipment.

"Instructor's Edition" contains the items above, plus an answer guide, different types of optical cable, image guides, LEDs and detectors.