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