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Optical Fibres - Lesson Outline

This lesson outline contains three videos, students activities and a cloze passage.

Federation Fellow Professor Ben Eggleton, from the university of Sydney, explains how optical fibres guide light and why silica is used to make them. Federation Fellow Professor Tanya Monro, from the University of Adelaide, explains how to make an optical fibre.

Component Resources

• Video » Optical Fibres Introduction
• Video » Optical Fibres: Guiding Light
• Video » Making a Fibre

Related Resources

• Australian Physicists - Lesson Outline
• Becoming a Physicist
• Physics Researcher

External Links

• HSC Online from Charles Sturt University
• How Does an Optical fibre Transmit Light? From How Stuff Works
• CUDOS at the University of Sydney
• Professor Ben Eggleton
• The Centre of Expertise in Photonics at the University of Adelaide
• Professor Tanya Monro