Optical Fibre Demonstration Kit

The kit was developed to demonstrate light propagation in optical fibers, transmission, receiving and transfer of optical data. This version allows audio and one-way PC-to-PC transmission.

The set contains a basic transmitter and receiver boards with the possibility to connect the following modules:

• analog transmitter
• receiver
• digital transmitter
• receiver
• transmitter set with microphone
• receiver set with amplifier and speaker
• frequency generator
• USB receiver
• transmitter

The set also contains a special holder for fiber optics, a universal AOV meter device, equipment for Tyndall´s light guiding experiment, force plates, bending cylinders, special emeries for fiber preparation, jacketed and unjacketed fibers, power sources and user guide with a set of examples.

The kit also contains video user guide and tutorials about the experiments.

Basic experiments:

• Detection of the optical signal by the analog receiver
• Tyndall´s light-guiding experiment
• Transmission and amplification of sound, whereby the electrical signal is changed into an optical signal, amplified, changed back to an electrical signal, and finally received by the speaker
• Fiber-to-fiber connection damping measured by using mechanically adjustable holders
• Transmission of signal from the frequency generator
• Fiber bend damping measured by using special cylinders to create the bend
• Optical liquid level sensors
• Transmissions sensor allowing detecting changes of optical signals between two separate optical ends (could be used as a counter of passing objects)
• Optical fiber-based dynamometer
• One-way transmission of a digital signal between two computers through a USB port with the help of optical fibers