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This page contains links to information about the communications technologies of the future.

	NTPG: Future Communications Technologies - An interesting overview of communications technologies produced by the California Department of education can be found at http://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/et/rd/ntpgcomm.asp Modern Communication: The Laser & Fiber-Optic Revolution - from Beyond Discovery, The National Academy of Sciences http://www.beyonddiscovery.org/content/view.article.asp?a=438 Fiber Optics - from HyperPhysics, Georgia State Universtiy http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/optmod/fibopt.html How Fiber Optics Work from How Stuff Works - includes topics such as What are Fiber optics? and Physics of Total Internal Reflection http://www.howstuffworks.com/fiber-optic.htm The Australian Photonics Cooperative Research Centre website http://www.photonics.crc.org.au/


You will also find information that might be interesting under the Photonics tab at the top of the page and at the CUDOS web site.

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