A curriculum for industrial arts, vocational schools, and universities in fiber optics 10 to 15 weeks long.  A prerequisite of basic understanding of electronics and mathematics is suggested.  Course includes a text for classroom or lecture, lab manual for student experiments and lab kit with all required components.  The classroom text has three parts.  Part one puts fiber optics into perspective as a transmission medium and describes its advantages over other media.  Part Two examines fiber sources, detectors, and connectors because of the significant difference between them and their electronic counterparts.  Part Three explains how fiber optics system design, installation, special fiber optics hardware, applications, and equipment.   Lab Course and Lab Kit are described below.

"Instructors Edition" contains an answer guide, 12 demonstration pieces, and regular curriculum.

Stock Number   COC-SC10                       U.S. $125.00
Instructor's Edition  COC-SC101N             U.S. $225.00

The Lab Course is a 60 page technical manual, written in a easy to understand style, that fits well with any text or course on fiber optics.  It contains seven ready to use experiments, which are:

• Making a Light Pipe
• Fiber Cable Transmission
• Splices, Connectors and Terminations
• Fiber Optic Transmitters
• Making a Star Coupler
• Plus a Final Design Project

These experiments have students working with the different opto-electronic components and connectors used in fiber optics, and later applying this experience to a practical problem.
The Lab Kit contains optical light pipe, fiber optic cable, splices, connectors and polishing film, with LEDs, photodetectors, transmitter and receiver electronics.

Stock Number                    COC-SC10                      U.S. $125.00
Instructor's Edition             COC-SC101N                  U.S. $225.00

Learn fiber optics the easy way by experimenting and building projects with on prior experience needed.  The practical 224-page text has three parts:

"Fundamentals..." etc.,  Experimenting with 8 elements and a section with five projects including "Getting Acquainted with a Light Pipe," "AM Fiber Optic Receiver," and "Fiber Optic Light-Pen Cable."   After completion of this kit several useful projects will have been constructed, such as an analog voice link and light pen.  Kit includes all the fiber optic components, connectors, and cable needed.  Ideal for science projects in advanced junior high and high school level classrooms.

Stock Number  COC-E33                      U.S. $89.95

An easy to construct, digital link for teaching students about fiber optics the "hand-on" way.  Kit contains transmitter, receiver, 1 meter of fiber, printed wiring boards, polishing film, and electronic components.  Included is a 21-page booklet explaining the basics, theory of operation, assembly, and several experiments.  Completed data link is suitable for high-voltage isolation, computer interfaces, etc.  This is our simplest educational kit that is ideal for beginning experimenters, classrooms and students.  Grades 7 and above.

Stock Number COC-E22                      U.S. $32.95