Optical fiber is a waveguide in the form of a thread of highly transparent material designed to transmit information over long distances using optical signals.
The first thing to keep in mind is that fiber optics are a composite made of high-quality plastic, which consists of small fibers that transmit light signals. The function of fiber optics is to transfer these light signals at different frequencies.
So that you understand it better, referring to fiber optics is as if we were imagining a wide highway along which, instead of cars, a large amount of data travels, traveling long distances at high speeds, so that the user can access various types of services.
The Internet is one of the main beneficiaries of this technology and surely at this moment you are browsing a web page thanks to a fiber connection, which improves data transmission speeds.
Thanks to fiber optics you can download your favorite programs at high speed, access social networks, listen to your favorite music, play online, among many other activities.
Furthermore, the growth of fiber optics contributes in several fields such as: the dynamization of the economy, the promotion of innovation, the contribution to GDP growth, among other advantages that contribute to the change of the Productive Matrix.
In the so-called Information Society, practically everything is done with the support of connectivity and that is precisely when fiber optics become important, since it facilitates and improves our quality of life.
What is fiber optics for?
Fiber optics are ideal for cable telecommunications, allowing local and long-range computer networks to be established, with a minimum of information loss along the way.
Its applications are diverse in this field, allowing the obtaining of network material, fiber optic sensors (for temperature, pressure or light levels), lighting material (particularly effective since it does not require proximity to the light source), and also being useful for decoration (there are Christmas trees made of fiber optics) or as a component of translucent concrete.
How does fiber optics work?
The operating principle of optical fiber is that of Snell's Law, which allows calculating the angle of refraction of light when passing from one medium to another with a different refractive index.
Thus, within the fiber, the light beams are trapped and propagating in the core, given the physical properties of the coating and the appropriate reflection angle, transporting the information sent to the destination. In the latter it operates in a similar way to the telegraph.
Advantages of Fiber Optic
- It takes up little space. Given its small size, it is extremely flexible, which makes it easier to install.
- It's light. Well, it weighs eight times less than a conventional cable.
- It has great resistance. Both mechanical and thermal, and resists corrosion well.
- It is more ecological. Compared to the waste left by conventional wiring.
- Immune to electromagnetic interference. Given the nature of its components.
- Fast, effective and safe. It is the best known form of cable data transmission.
The disadvantages of fiber optics point to the following:
- They are fragile. Since the glass inside is susceptible to breaking.
- Requires converters. To return light energy to its informative meaning.
- Splices are difficult. Especially in rural areas.
- It does not transmit electrical energy. Therefore, it requires complex emitters and conveyors, whose energy supply cannot be taken from the line itself.
- It ages in the presence of water. Which limits its global application.
- There are no optical memories.
Developing the project
At Miller Smith Engineering we have the necessary experience to develop your fiber optic projects, whether large-scale with the installation of single-mode fiber for links from city to city, from plant to plant, or for links within your facilities with multimode fiber optics. either with mechanical connection or by fusion.
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