A fiber-optic cable, also known as an optical-fiber cable, is an assembly similar to an electrical cable but containing one or more optical fibers that...

Specially designed fibers are also used for a variety of other applications, such as fiber optic sensors and fiber lasers. Glass optical fibers are typically...

Fiber-optic communication is a method of transmitting information from one place to another by sending pulses of infrared or visible light through an...

which alter cable polarization. In the 1980s, fiber-optic cables were developed. The first transatlantic telephone cable to use optical fiber was TAT-8...

Fiber Optic cable termination is the addition of connectors to each optical fiber in a cable. The fibers need to have connectors fitted before they can...

connect equipment and fiber-optic cables, or to cross-connect cables. Most optical fiber connectors are spring-loaded, so the fiber faces are pressed together...

as cable internet access through DOCSIS. Bandwidth is shared among users of an HFC. Encryption is used to prevent eavesdropping. The fiber optic network...

Power-over-fiber, or PoF, is a technology in which a fiber-optic cable carries optical power, which is used as an energy source rather than, or as well...

to the useful length for multi-mode fiber optic cable. In contrast, the lasers used to drive single-mode fibers produce coherent light of a single wavelength...

used for last mile telecommunications. As fiber optic cables are able to carry much more data than copper cables, especially over long distances, copper...