| Enter the Dragon | | | | man |
| You stumble through a maze of mirrors, placed | | | | Optic fibers come as Single-mode fibers and |
| methodically so that the camera filming you doesn't film | | | | Multi-mode fibers.Single Mode fibers have small cores |
| itself... you have hot pink fluids smeared over your | | | | (about 9 microns in diameter) and transmit infrared |
| arms and torso as an obscure, esoteric reference to | | | | laser light.Multi-mode fibers have larger cores (about |
| human blood... there is a chinese actor chasing you | | | | 62.5 microns in diameter) and transmit infrared light |
| with an over-sized rabbit's foot with marshmallow | | | | from LEDs (light emitting diodes).Who Cares How it |
| roasters attached to the fingers as an obscure | | | | Works, Get Back to the Scary Chinese Actor with the |
| esoteric reference to a bear-claw-esque weapon | | | | Bear-Claw |
| (which will henceforth be reverenced in the form of a | | | | Lets talk advantages to Fiber over Copper: |
| mouth-watering innamon/frosting medley pastry).Is this | | | | Thinner- Optical fibers can be drawn to smaller |
| the freakiest haunted carnival fun house ever? Is it a | | | | diameters than copper wire. |
| story Spielberg, Coppola, Lucas, and the like tell over a | | | | Less Signal Degradation- fiber optic cable not only can |
| campfire to try to scare each other sleepless? None | | | | be used in networks, but to extend USB, Firewire, DVI, |
| of the above! This horror (multiplied by several millions) | | | | and other types of signals that degrade over short |
| is what a poor innocent signal particle experiences | | | | distances. Gefen, for instance, carries a great DVI |
| every time he/she is sent through the most horrible | | | | extender that will carry your DVI signal up to 1640 feet, |
| rollercoaster of death: the fiber optic cable.Enter the | | | | for when you want to do a powerpoint at a Vegas |
| Nightmare | | | | trade show at the Belagio without leaving the dollar |
| Fiber optic cable is virtually a tube lined on the inside | | | | black jack machine at "Jim's Food and Fuel Safari" |
| with a flexible mirror that bounces the poor innocent | | | | somewhere far away from the strip.No Interference- |
| signal particle around until it gets to the other side. | | | | Interference will someday be extinct from the english |
| Imagine trying to shine a light down a bending tunnel. If | | | | language except when used soley to refer to the |
| the tunnel is lined on the inside by mirrors, the light will | | | | famous playground Deus ex Machina that saved you |
| bounce around until it finally arrives at the end. More | | | | from total dodgeball humiliation. In other words, with the |
| specifically: | | | | advent of fiber optics, information will be sent through |
| each optical fiber has three layers: | | | | light signals and not electrical signals (used with copper |
| 1.Core: A thin glass center of the fiber where the | | | | wires), eliminating that nasty bully called |
| signal/light particle travels | | | | interference.Less Power- Because signals in fiber |
| 1.5.Scary Chinese actor with over-sized rabbit's foot | | | | optics degrade less, less power is needed to make |
| 2.Cladding: Optical Material that surrounds the core | | | | degradation corrections. |
| and reflects the light back into the core. | | | | No Fire Hazard- Since light (not electricity) being |
| 3.Buffer Coating: Plastic coating that protects the fiber | | | | passed through these cables, there is no fire hazard. |
| from damage and moisture.Thousands of hundreds of | | | | Flexible- Fiber optic cable is smaller, more flexible, and |
| tens of a couple of these fibers are arranged in | | | | therefore more agile than copper. It is especially useful |
| bundles in optical cables in an outer covering called a | | | | in medical imaging, mechanical imaging, plumbing, etc. |
| "jacket".Single Mode Lee vs. Multi-mode bear-claw | | | | |