The Discovery of Fiber Optic Technology

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The Discovery of Fiber Optic
Technology
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Technology and development go hand in hand and
that has been accomplished way before. We are now
going to the moon planning to stay on the mars
and trying to have robot helpers in every
household, only because of the advancement of the
technology. There was a time when people used to
have satellite TVs in their home, which would be
required to get up and then change the channel.
But now there are smart TVs that lets you change
the channel with gestures, lets you do facebook
and what not. All of this development was not
build in one day there were so many errors and
process that was done before to achieve the final
outcome. Optical technology is one of those
things that required tries to get the advanced
look. Optical technology is the main reason
behind all the advanced gadgets and the main
success of many fields. Optical technology is the
form of fiber optic cables. These cables were
specially designed to make the transmitting
process better with the force of light. Light is
the medium to transfer the information from one
point to another. These fiber optic cables are
made of glass or plastic a thread, which works
just like mirrors and that, is why the light can
pass through these threads.
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• There are also many advantages to change the data
  transmitting from metal wire to fiber optic
  cables
• The old wires were made of wire and that is why
  they were exceptionally heavy weight and very
  tough to install. Fiber optic cables are made of
  glass threads and that is why these cables are
  much lighter than the metal wires and that is why
  it is very easy to install them.
• Optic cables have a greater bandwidth that means
  that they can carry more data at once. To put it
  simply, one thread of these cables can carry
  almost 25,000 calls, so the whole cable is able
  to carry several million calls in them. So, it
  saves the space from installing so many cables.
• Fiber optic cables can do multitasking because of
  the wider bandwidth, which means one cable can
  carry the data of video call, audio call internet
  access and lots of other transmitting processes.
  So, you can save more money by installing one
  wire for many uses.

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• To have a more secure capturing of signals,
  optical fiber is a great development. Because
  these fibers do not generate electromagnetic
  fields that can be picked up by any sensor. And
  it is also hard to steal signals by splicing into
  the optical fibers, unlike the copper wires.
• Optic fiber sends signal digitally and not
  analogically, it is very helpful because it is
  the original form of computer data.
• The best reason to switch to fiber optic to save
  money because these are less expensive than
  copper wires. The corporate world can save a
  massive amount of money by installing these
  cables.
• You will not face any errors with these cables
  because of the proper designs the designs help
  to provide more adequate signal levels at the
  receiving end of the link.
• To secure the information fiber optic cables are
  more useful, the old metal wire can be
  manipulated easily and that is why they were not
  safe to use for data exchanging purposes. To data
  transmitting from one computer to another, it is
  easier to use fiber optic cables, because unlike
  copper wires they transmit data digitally not
  analogically.

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• Optical technology has been like a blessing for
  electrical engineers because of productivity and
  also because of the safety of it. When it comes
  to fault detection devices it is pretty important
  to use optical technology as it will give you the
  best result as any other. Optical technology is
  the form of fiber optic cables these cables are
  known to be faster and better than the old metal
  wires. It was really tough before to install the
  metal wires before for electrical usage because
  each of these cables was pretty heavy and hard to
  install. But fiber optic cables are very light
  because they are only made of glass or plastic
  threads.
• Optical technology mainly uses light as their
  medium of data transition and that is why this
  technology works faster than the previous one,
  And not only this but because of optical
  technology we are able to use so many advance
  gadgets that help us to be more productive an
  also help in our daily life. For example, the
  electric alarm clock that we use is made of fiber
  optic cables, the remote that controls the TV,
  the landline we use almost every other gadget we
  use is made of optical technology.