Introduction Ideas and information travel in different ways. In our daily lives, we may not realize it but the cables around us have great importance in order to receive and send messages. Most importantly, a fiber-optic cable carries information between two places using entirely light based or in other words, optical technology. I will address how the optical fibers work, the variety of uses, and lastly, the advantages and disadvantages of this technology.
The Mechanics and Physicality of Optical Fibers
Firstly, an optical fiber is flexible and transparent fiber which is made of drawing glass or plastic. Optical fibers have a diameter that is slightly thicker than that of a human hair. Most optical fibers used in communication have the diameter of 0.25 mm to 0.5 mm including outer coating. Optical Fibre communication takes place between 0.8 micrometers to 1.7 micrometers of a wavelength of the electromagnetic
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A few disadvantages are that is difficult to splice, expensive to install, highly susceptible and it can't be curved. Optical fibers lose light due to scattering which makes it difficult to splice. The physical arc of this cable is also very limited which means that is can break or get damaged easily. The optical fibers are more expensive to install, and they have to be installed by the specialists. They are not as robust as the wires. Special test equipment is often required for the optical fiber. In addition, according to specialists, “The fiber optic cable is a small and compact cable, and it is highly susceptible to becoming cut or damaged during installation or construction activities. The fiber optic cables can provide tremendous data transmission capabilities. So, when the fiber optic cabling is chosen as the transmission medium, it is necessary to address restoration, backup, and
The medium comes in the form of a salvific complex of fiber optic cable and ROM,
Coaxial cable has high attenuation rate over long distance. Besides that coaxial cable is bulky as it made up of several material and thick copper. (Gupta, 2012)
Data security: Magnetic fields and current induction work in two ways, they just don’t generate noise in signal carrying conductors; they also let the information on the conductor to be leaked out. Since there are no radiated magnetic fields around optical fibers; electromagnetic fields are confined within the fiber. This makes it impossible to tap the signal being transmitted over fiber cable. Thus the fiber cable is the most secure medium available for carrying sensitive data.
Coaxial cable uses a single conductor in the middle of a cable and the central conductor is surrounded by an insulator which is called the dielectric. Coax cables have become obsolete. Unshielded twisted pair cabling, also known as UTP cabling, has become the most common used network cabling. UTP cabling consists of four twisted pairs of wire, which have a different number of twists per foot, all encased on one sheath. This cabling is graded by different categories. Category 5 is recommended for Ethernet speeds of 100 Mbps. Category 5e, for running gigabit Ethernet or 1000BaseT networks. Category 6 and Category 6a are used to give better performance at higher speeds. Fiber optic cable is wave guided or light guided because it guides the light waves along the length of the cable. Single mode fiber optic cable can operate over long distances. Because fiber allows one mode of light to propagate, light pulses put on the fiber keep their shape much longer. This allows the light pulses to travel much further without interfering with other
Fiber: A fiber cable is either multiple strands of fiber optic surrounded by insulation, or a single fiber strand surrounded by insulation.
Fiber optic cable was once reserved for high-performance needs, but today it’s turning up in all kinds of networks. If you’re familiar with copper cable, you’ll quickly discover that fiber optic cable is a completely different animal. Not only is the installation process different for fiber, but also the troubleshooting process. Fiber optic cable is also far more fragile than copper cable, so there are more potential causes of trouble. I’ll discuss common fiber optic cable problems and how to diagnose and repair them. The most common causes of fiber optic malfunctionsAnyone who’s ever done network troubleshooting knows it’s a
An optical fiber (or optical fiber) is a flexible, transparent fiber made by drawing glass (silica) or plastic to a breadth somewhat thicker than that of a human hair. Optical fibers are utilized regularly as a way to transmit light between the two closures of the fiber and find wide utilization in fiber-optic communication, where they allow transmission over longer separations and at higher bandwidths (information rates) than wire links. Fibers are utilized rather than metal wires in light of the fact that signals go along them with lesser measures of loss; moreover, fibers are likewise resistant to electromagnetic impedance, an issue which metal wires experience the ill effects of excessively. Fibers are additionally utilized for
main drawback is the color of the metal. The biggest advantage is the high strength.
Use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance.* [Clarification Statement: Examples of devices could include a light source to send signals, paper cup and string “telephones,” and a pattern of drum beats.] [Assessment Boundary: Assessment does not include technological details for how communication devices work.]
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The most important components of a laparoscopic system are the light source and light cable. The light cable is mainly available in two types the fiber optic cable and gel-filled cable. A gel-filled cable the transmitting channel is filled with clear liquid optical gel. A fiber optic cable transmits light through internal reflections within glass fibers. High temperatures produced in the system depends upon many different factors such as the type of light cable, the type of light bulb used as the light source, the heat dissipation mechanisms, the heat filters used. The gel filled cables are capable of transmitting
Fiber optic cable is not a new form of technology. It allows for larger amounts of data to be transferred at a rate much higher than traditional copper cable. This is the main appeal to fiber optic technologies. This being said, it is very expensive to replace current mediums with fiber optic infrastructure. In the Bloomberg article, “Will Not-Quite-Fiber Make the Grade?”, BT has realized that there is a sector of the United Kingdom’s market that wants the ability to transfer larger amounts of
synthetic fibers used to make the cable circular and to fill the gap between the phases
Light enters one end of the fiber from a light bulb, laser, or some other source, and travels essentially unimpeded all the way to the length of the fiber where it is intercepted by a photosensitive detector such as an electronic device or even the human eye. The distance of travel varies according to the use to anywhere from just a few inches to over one-hundred and fifty miles. Fiber optic cable can transmit large amounts of information over one-hundred and fifty miles almost instantaneously. “While it takes five hours to transmit the contents of an encyclopedia over copper wires, the entire work can be transmitted in less than a minute over fiber optics” (Yawn PG).