What is Optical Fiber?
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Optical fiber is a type of thin, transparent fiber, typically made of glass or plastic, which is used for light transport. Fiber Optics is a branch of applied science and engineering that discusses this optical fiber.
Large amounts of information can be transported in a very short time with optical fiber. Among the many advantages of optical fiber, the data transport in this system is reduced, loss of electromagnetic influence and so on.
Optical fiber is widely used for telecommunications. Besides, it is also being used for lighting, sensor and photo editing.
History
The optical concept as the medium of communication was first discovered by Optical Telegraph discovered by French scientist Claude Chappe in 1790. In this process, the human operator sent messages from one tower to another. But after the electrical telegraph came, this method became ineffective. Later, Alexander Graham Bell discovered the optical telephone system in 1880 which became known as a photofone. He thought of sending a light signaal in the air but could not properly transmit the weather light. As a result, this purpose was hindered. In the current fiber that reflects the full internal reflection of light, Swiss physicist Daniel Collodon and French physicist Jacones Babinet discovered in 1840. With this notion, in 1920, Henrich Lamm and Munich were able to send a televised image or image through a transparent crescent. But the quality of their discovered image was not very good. The way it was transmitted till now, all of them were uncladding. That is why most of the light was spreading all over, and Siganyal was weak. Later, American physicist Brian O'Brien was the first to be able to use cladding optical fiber.
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