An optical fiber, or optical fibre, is a flexible glass or plastic fiber that can transmit light from one end to the other. Such fibers find wide usage... 94 KB (11,524 words) - 17:40, 14 April 2024 |
A fiber-optic cable, also known as an optical-fiber cable, is an assembly similar to an electrical cable but containing one or more optical fibers that... 33 KB (3,215 words) - 02:14, 29 April 2024 |
or visible light through an optical fiber. The light is a form of carrier wave that is modulated to carry information. Fiber is preferred over electrical... 73 KB (7,564 words) - 19:47, 25 April 2024 |
An optical fiber connector is a device used to link optical fibers, facilitating the efficient transmission of light signals. An optical fiber connector... 28 KB (2,557 words) - 04:48, 9 April 2024 |
In fiber-optic communication, a single-mode optical fiber (SMF), also known as fundamental- or mono-mode, is an optical fiber designed to carry only a... 14 KB (1,704 words) - 22:13, 25 April 2024 |
A fiber laser (or fibre laser in Commonwealth English) is a laser in which the active gain medium is an optical fiber doped with rare-earth elements such... 24 KB (2,843 words) - 14:26, 2 November 2023 |
conventional optical fiber is the part of the fiber that guides the light. It is a cylinder of glass or plastic that runs along the fiber's length. The... 3 KB (316 words) - 23:24, 28 November 2021 |
A fiber-optic sensor is a sensor that uses optical fiber either as the sensing element ("intrinsic sensors"), or as a means of relaying signals from a... 19 KB (2,208 words) - 21:58, 13 August 2023 |
Fiber to the x (FTTX; also spelled "fibre") or fiber in the loop is a generic term for any broadband network architecture using optical fiber to provide... 42 KB (4,908 words) - 15:33, 28 April 2024 |
A passive optical network (PON) is a fiber-optic telecommunications technology for delivering broadband network access to end-customers. Its architecture... 42 KB (5,533 words) - 15:43, 25 April 2024 |
Numerical aperture (redirect from Numerical aperture (optical fiber)) multi-mode optical fiber will only propagate light that enters the fiber within a certain range of angles, known as the acceptance cone of the fiber. The half-angle... 16 KB (2,252 words) - 00:21, 27 April 2024 |
Hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) is a broadband telecommunications network that combines optical fiber and coaxial cable. It has been commonly employed globally... 42 KB (4,818 words) - 22:40, 22 April 2024 |
In fiber optics, polarization-maintaining optical fiber (PMF or PM fiber) is a single-mode optical fiber in which linearly polarized light, if properly... 7 KB (983 words) - 14:43, 6 August 2023 |
Photonic-crystal fiber (PCF) is a class of optical fiber based on the properties of photonic crystals. It was first explored in 1996 at University of... 13 KB (1,684 words) - 01:11, 30 March 2024 |
Transverse mode (redirect from Fiber mode) confined to a waveguide, and also in light waves in an optical fiber and in a laser's optical resonator. Transverse modes occur because of boundary conditions... 12 KB (1,717 words) - 23:22, 19 February 2024 |
Cladding in optical fibers is one or more layers of materials of lower refractive index in intimate contact with a core material of higher refractive index... 7 KB (888 words) - 08:58, 26 May 2023 |
An optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR) is an optoelectronic instrument used to characterize an optical fiber. It is the optical equivalent of an... 10 KB (1,502 words) - 10:21, 15 February 2024 |
When optical fibers are exposed to ionizing radiation such as energetic electrons, protons, neutrons, X-rays, Ƴ-radiation, etc., they undergo 'damage'... 8 KB (953 words) - 14:50, 14 April 2024 |
Transmission medium (section Optical fiber) waves. Thus, an optical fiber or a copper cable is used as transmission media. Electromagnetic radiation can be transmitted through an optical medium, such... 19 KB (2,284 words) - 16:06, 11 April 2024 |
An optical ground wire (also known as an OPGW or, in the IEEE standard, an optical fiber composite overhead ground wire) is a type of cable that is used... 9 KB (1,198 words) - 18:11, 1 December 2023 |
Fibre Channel (redirect from Fiber Channel) operate in unison as one big switch. Fibre Channel typically runs on optical fiber cables within and between data centers, but can also run on copper cabling... 34 KB (3,398 words) - 03:50, 26 April 2024 |
Light tube (redirect from Optical fiber light tube) capture moonlight at night. Optical fibers can also be used for daylighting. A solar lighting system based on plastic optical fibers was in development at Oak... 35 KB (3,393 words) - 02:55, 14 March 2024 |