Tutorial: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking - But Were Afraid to Ask

This tutorial explores the fundamentals of optical networking technologies, terminology, history, and future technologies currently under development.
Example topics include:
* How fiber works (the basics, fiber types and limitations, etc)
* Working with optics (choosing the right type, designing optical networks, etc)
* Optical power (understanding dBm, loss, using light meters, etc)
* DWDM (how it works, muxes, oadms, amps, etc)
* Dispersion (what is it, why do we care, how do we fix it)
* Optical Myths (can I hurt myself looking into fiber, can I overload my optic, etc)
Speaker: Richard Steenbergen - Petabit Scale

[@phobos6389]

Very nice talk and honestly very very understandable for someone like me who started actually caring about fibre optics in the last 2 years. These videos should really get more attention because I feel like most people have no idea how fibre optics work and just "use it". Please continue uploading these videos. The audience doesn't seem very large but the impact to those who really want to learn more it is very appreciated.

[@prithabhattacharya9113]

Doesn’t core have higher refractive index than cladding unlike what is mentioned in this video that cladding has a higher refractive index than core