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fiber optics


fiber optics

n. (used with sing. verb)1. The science or technology of light transmission through very fine, flexible glass or plastic fibers.2. A cable or network of cables containing optical fibers.
fi′ber-op′tic, fi′ber·op′tic (fī′bər-ŏp′tĭk) adj.

fi′ber op′tics

or fi′ber•op′tics,


n. the technology of sending computer data, video and voice signals, etc., through laser-generated light carried in bundles of ultrapure, transparent fiber (optical fiber) whose refraction properties allow the light to be transmitted around curves. [1960–65] fi`ber•op′tic, adj.

fiber optics

The technology based on the use of fine glass or plastic fibers that are capable of transmitting light around curves. Fiber optics is used in medicine and for long-distance telephone and computer lines.Did You Know? In an optical fiber, a beam of light travels within a thin strand of glass or plastic. The light stays within the strand, even if the strand is curved or twisted. That's because the materials the optical fiber is made of—and the way in which the light is aimed into the fiber—are chosen so that when the light beam reaches the strand's outer edge it reflects back into the strand, rather than escaping through the wall. Generally, when a beam of light traveling in one material strikes the boundary of another, some light travels through the boundary and some is reflected back into the original material. But if the speed of light in the material the beam starts out in (the glass) is lower than the speed of light in the other material (the air or insulating material surrounding the fiber), and if the light strikes the boundary of the other material at a shallow enough angle, then all of the light is reflected and none escapes.

fiber optics

The use and study of light transmission through fine, flexible glass and plastic tubes.
Thesaurus
Noun1.fiber optics - the transmission of light signals via glass fibersfiberoptics, fibre optics, fibreopticstransmission - communication by means of transmitted signals
Translations
ottica delle fibre

fiber optics


fiber optics,

transmission of digitized messages or information by light pulses along hair-thin glass or plastic fibers. Each fiber is surrounded by a cladding having a high index of refractance so that the light is internally reflected and travels the length of the fiber without escaping. Cables of optical fibers can be made smaller and lighter than cables using copper wires or coaxial tubes, yet they can carry much more information, making them useful for transmitting large amounts of data between computers and for carrying data-intensive television pictures or many simultaneous phone conversations. Optical fibers are immune to electromagnetic interference (from lightning, nearby electric motors, and similar sources) and to crosstalk from adjoining wires, and tapping into them is more easily detected. To keep a signal from deteriorating, optical fibers require fewer repeaters over a given distance than does copper wire. In addition to communications, optical fibers are used in medical procedures, automobiles, aircraft and many other applications. In 2009 Charles K. Kao was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for determining that purer glass was what was needed to create optical fibers that could transmit light over longer distances than the 20 meters that was possible in 1966. His insight led to the Corning Glass Works' development in 1970 of long, ultrapure glass fibers.

Fiber optics

Light is transmitted from a tungsten-halogen or metal-halide light source through flexible bundles of optical fibers that carry the light to the end of the bundles.

Fiber Optics

 

the branch of optics that deals with the transmission of light and images through light conductors and waveguides for the visible wavelength range, particularly through multistrand light conductors and flexible fiber bundles. Fiber optics came into being as recently as the 1950’s.

In fiber-optical devices the light signals are transmitted through light conductors from one surface (the input face of the light conductor) to another (the output face) as a set of image elements, each of which is transmitted through its own light-conducting strand. The glass fibers that are usually used have a light-conducting strand (core) with a high index of refraction surrounded by a glass sheath with a lower index of refraction. Consequently, the rays undergo total internal reflection at the boundary between the core and the sheath and propagate only along the strand of the light conductor. In spite of a multitude of such reflections, losses of light in the conductor are mainly due to light absorption by the glass of the strand. The transmission coefficient of light conductors in the visible spectral region is 30-70 percent for a conductor length of 1 m. The diameter of the light-conductor strands in devices designed for various purposes varies from several microns to 1 cm. The propagation of light in light conductors with diameters that are large compared to the wavelength takes place according to the laws of geometric optics. How-ever, only certain types of waves, or combinations of waves, propagate in thinner fibers (of the order of a wavelength); this subject is treated within the framework of wave optics.

Rigid, multistrand, and bunched light conductors with a regular fiber arrangement are used for the transmission of an image. The image is projected onto the input face by a lens and is observed at the output through an eyepiece. The image quality in such devices is determined by the diameter of the strands, their total number, and their quality. The resolving power of such bunched conductors is 10-50 lines per mm; in rigid, multistrand light conductors and in devices produced by the fusion of such conductors it is up to 100 lines per mm. The defects in such devices, regardless of their location on the strands of the light conductor, are transmitted along the strands to the outlet end, distorting the image. This makes the production of high-quality devices difficult.

Plates cut across the grain from tightly fused fibers are used for the frontal glass of kinescopes; they transfer the image onto their external surface, which makes contact photography of the image possible. In this case, the main portion of the light emitted by the phosphor reaches the film, and the illumination of the film is dozens of times greater than in the case of photography using a camera with a lens.

The numerical aperture of the fiber devices is usually within the range of 0.4 to 1.0. Tapering light-conductor bundles (focusing cones) collect on the narrow end face the light flux incident to the wide end face. In this case, the illumination and the inclination of the rays increase at the outlet. An increase in concentration is possible to the point at which the numerical aperture of the cone of light at the outlet face equals the numerical aperture of the light conductor. A further decrease in the diameter of the outlet leads to the escape of a portion of the rays through the side of the light conductor or to the return of the rays to the wide end face.

Fiber optics is used in almost all areas of scientific re-search. Hundreds of kinds of optical and electronic-optical instruments are manufactured with fiber-optical parts. Rigid straight or prebent single-strand light conductors and bundles of fibers 15-50 microns in diameter are being used in medical cold-light instrumentation for illuminating the nasopharynx, the stomach, and other organs. In such instruments the light from an electric lamp is collected by a condenser on the input face of the light conductor or bunch, through which it is conducted to the cavity to be illuminated. This makes it possible to keep the lamp (a heat source) away from the cavity. Light conductors with fixed degrees of interweaving are used in high-speed cinematography, for recording nuclear particle tracks, as scanning converters in picture transmission and television measuring technology, as code converters, and as encoding devices. Active (laser) fibers have been developed; they perform as quantum amplifiers and quantum generators of light and are designed for high-speed computers and for performing the functions of logic elements or memory storage cells. Fibers attached at one end, resembling a skewed brush (septrons), make possible the analysis of sound spectra, the separation of voices from crowd noise, and the development of devices for controlling machines by voice signals.

Fiber components are produced from particularly pure materials. Light conductors and fibers are drawn from melts of the required type of glass. A new optical material, crystal fiber (which is grown from a melt), has been developed. In this material the threadlike crystals are the light conductors, and additives introduced into the melt are the interlayers.

REFERENCES

Kapany, N. S. Volokonnaia optika. Moscow, 1969. (Translated from English.)
Veinberg, V. B., and D. K. Sattarov. Optika svetovodov. Moscow, 1969.

V. B. VEINBERG

fiber optics

[′fī·bər ‚äp·tiks] (optics) The technique of transmitting light through long, thin, flexible fibers of glass, plastic, or other transparent materials; bundles of parallel fibers can be used to transmit complete images.

fiber optics

(spelling)US spelling of "fibre optics". See optical fibre.

fiber optics

The use of optical fibers. Fiber-optic networks transformed the world of communications. Starting in the late 1960s and gaining momentum in the 1980s, the phone companies replaced their copper long distance trunks with fiber cable. Fiber transmission also reaches many commercial buildings and even to the home in certain neighborhoods. In time, the electronic circuits in computers may be replaced with light, in which case fiber pathways would be used throughout the system. See FTTP, optical fiber and fiber optics glossary.


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fiber optics


  • noun

Synonyms for fiber optics

noun the transmission of light signals via glass fibers

Synonyms

  • fiberoptics
  • fibre optics
  • fibreoptics

Related Words

  • transmission
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