A list of some web links relevant to optical fibres, by Bob Coïsson (warning: not all have been tried yet)
* Lists of general optics links
Physics Around the World: Optics
(mirror in
Canada )
Optics Yellow Pages
(by a graduate student at Univ. Southern California)
SPIE's Optics.org
PhotonicsOnLine
* A list of fibre optics links:
FiberOpticsOnLine
Piber Optics Yellow Pages
* Fibre optics WWW working groups:
- Fiber66
- SPIE F.O. working group
* A new magazine about fibre optics:
Fibre Systems Europe
* Software for calculating optical fibres:
- Fiber_CAD (OptiWave)
* Example of optics teaching multimedia:
- Optics & Lenses
and
Physics of rainbow
Java Applets by Fu-Kwun Huang, Taiwan
- Virtual Optical Bench for teaching
geometrical optics of thin lenses (working demo to be downloaded)
- Java Applet Gallery for
secondary school physics teaching in Japan
- VRML gallery of
electromagnetism from Univ. Syracuse, NY
- Electric
& Magnetic field in Waveguides by F. Navarro-Rodriguez, Univ. Politec.
Valencia, España
- Superposition of
Waves by Gong ZiLun, Univ. York, Ontario.
- Optical Fibre Tutorial
from Corning Glass (ad and elementary tutorial), to be downloaded.
* On-line publications:
F.O.Sensor Technol.Handbook
Fotec guide to installation
F.O.Testing (Jim Hayes)
* Commercial Kits for Fibre Optics Teaching.
- Newport
- OptoSci F.O. and other
optics kits
- MEOS Photonics
- Fotec's kits and
toolbox
- A.Jhunjhunwalla's F.O.Communications kit: Benchmark(Singapore) fax+65-7376038.
- Fibercore's fibre
laser kit
- OZ Optics
introductory F.O. kit with video
* A book with interactive diskette:
- " Understanding Fiber Optics on a PC", By A.Ghatak, A.Sharma, R.Tewar.
Viva Books 4346/4C Ansari Rd., Drayaganj, New Delhi 110002
* Lists of commercial links:
- Fiberoptic Marketplace
- Laurin Publ. Buyer's
Guide
Updated 11-11-1998
R. Coïsson