The History of Fiber Optic Technology

The History of Fiber Optic Technology 

In the year 1880 Alexander Graham Bell to create a communication system called light photo-phone using the light from the sun that dipantulkan a mirror-termodulasi thin voice to bring the conversation, the recipient sun termodulasi about a photo-cell kondukting-selenium, which alter a the flow of electricity, a phone receiver complete system. Photophone never achieve commercial success, although the system is working quite well.

 The big breakthrough in technology to bring fiber-optic communication with the discovery of high-capacity laser in 1960, but in the key in the fiber system that is practical yet found an efficient fiber. New fiber in 1970 with the loss of low-developed communications and fiber optics to be practical (Fiber optics used as cylindrical wire in general, consists of a core fiber (core) that are wrapped by the skin (Cladding), and both protected by the protective jacket (buffer coating)). This happened only 100 years after John Tyndall, a fisikawan Great Britain, the Royal Society to demonstrate that light can be guided along the curve of water flow. Dipandunya light by a fiber optic and by the flow of water is from the same phenomenon that total namely internal Reflection.

Fiber optic technology is always faced with the problem of how to more information that can be taken, faster and more far longer with the level of error that  to a minimum. Information taken the form of digital signal, the transmission capacity used amount measured in 1 Gb.km / s, which means 1 billion bits per second can be delivered through a distance of 1 km.

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