Communicating with light – fibre optics

Activities

1. Optical fibres as 'light pipes'

2. Illustrating the inverse square law of radiation

3. Morse code

Other activities

Helix (CSIRO, Australia)
Fibre optics in the kitchen – demonstrates the properties of optical fibres.

Newton's Apple (USA)
Telecommunications – an activity on optical fibres and an introduction to telecommunications.
Satellite technology – an activity on sending and receiving digital images.

UniServe Science (Australia)
An introduction to optics and communication – a series of 16 lesson plans relevant to optics and communication. Also provides an introduction to photonics, and teacher and student notes.
Explaining the principles of photonics and optical communications – a series of eight experiments in photonics and communication.

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Page updated January 2007.