Fiber and Optic Cables

Up until fairly recently most communication signals were transmitted via electric impulses through copper wires. Copper was the best of the available technologies for many years but it had significant limitations. The electric impulses are imperfect; they lose power, they become corrupted and distorted, and they can damage the copper wire. The … Keep Reading → technology of fiber optics, which is commonly used in today’s communications systems, is much more efficient and reliable. Fiber optic cables are very thin glass wires that transmit data via light impulses. Optical signals are transmitted; then along the path a regenerator helps with any degradation; and at the other end there is a receiver to decode the signal. So much of the technology we rely on such as phone, internet, and cable television have significantly better performance because of fiber optics. Many of the current systems would not be possible without it.

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