Monday, April 30, 2012

Optical Fiber


Optical Fiber: - Optical fibers are hire thin thread of glass or plastic, which can serve as a data transmission medium as copper wire or coaxial cables. The basic difference is that optical fiber transmits light signals instead of electrical signal. A fiber optic cable consists of three layers. The inner core is consisting of a cladding around it and outer protective coating.

Advantages: - The main components of optical fiber of an optical fiber in data communication system.

  1. Large band with: - Optical fiber can transmit massive amount of data at very high speed and long distance.
  2. High Speed: Because of light speed travels faster then electricity, optical fiber can transmit data at much higher speed.
  3. Low loss: Light signal can travel, at very high with no significant loss over long distance.
  4. Small size and light weight: Fiber optics is much smaller in size and lightens in weight.
  5. Security: Optical fiber increase security since it extremely difficult and expensive to top optical signals.  

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