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