Fiber Optic Pages on Yahoo - This link is actually to a search in electrical engineering for fiber optics (a general search yields disturbingly little). A good place to start looking for web pages.
Timeline - A more detailed timeline of all things related to Fiber Optics. There's also a short history by the same person, Jeff Hecht. Both are sort of dry reading.
We also found a few general overviews of what Fiber Optic communication is all about at AT&T, the National Academy of Science, and the Fiber Optic LANS reference section of the Telecommunications Industry Association.
Francis, A.J. & Harvey, W.E. (1976). Fundamentals of Optics. McGraw-Hill, Inc.
Hecht, Jeff (1999). City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics. Oxford University Press.
Snyder, A.W. & Love, J.D. (1983). Optical Waveguide Theory. Chapman and Hall, Inc.
Tannenbaum, A.S. (1996). Computer Networks, Third Edition. Prentice Hall Inc.
Tipler, P.A. (1991). Physics For Scientists and Engineers. Worth Publishers, Inc.
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Erin Quealy