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Activity: Optical fibres

The use of light in digital communication will be familiar to you if you have fibre broadband supplying the internet for the device in your hands at this moment. After this activity you will understand how total internal reflection enables light to travel along a fibre and be able to perform calculations regarding TIR and critical angle. It explains why step-indexed fibres can be bundled together and how waveguide dispersion...

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