You want to instil the interest of science in your kids? Or you want to enhance the interest of your children in science? Fiber optics is a branch of the Optics science that may be quite appealing for junior high and high school students. Want to bet? Even in some science programs at school fiber optics is part of their academic program, due in great part of the increasing development of this specialization and the necessity of future professionals in this field.
A good way to introduce your children in the fascinating world of fibers optics technology is through a fiber optics kit. With this scientific kit your child will be able realize many do-it-yourself experiments and projects and explore the light guiding properties of fiber optics.
A basic fiber optics kit includes a fiber optics transmitter that will allow your child to transmit his/her voice or a 1 kHz signal through a fiber optic cable towards a fiber optics receiver. Likewise it contains other elements as a fiber optics patch cable, lenses, light source, PC boards, microphones, speakers, 1,000mm plastic fiber, retention clips, connectors, couplers, splicers, a ceramic Keval cutter, termination fixture, a no nick fiber stripper, and its respective and instructive manual for correct use.. Batteries are not included; these batteries must be of 2-9 V.
The number of experiments and projects depends on the type of fiber optic kit. Some are focused on a determined aspect of fiber optics as laser fiber optics, in fiber optics communications, and there are of course the 101 basic fiber optics that will allow your child have a general acknowledge of fiber optics hardware and techniques that will enable him/her produce special optical effects, experiment fluorescence, examine fiber optics and lenses and even create their own constellation.