Teaching About Lightwave Communications

This book features the historical and theoretical background information necessary to understand the mysteries of modern lightwave communications. Students receive hands-on learning through a series of laboratory activities beginning with experiments originally conducted by Alexander Graham Bell in the 1880s to moderen activities such as encoding analog signals in optical communications. The equipment used is as simple, rugged, and inexpensive as possible while still working reliably.
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