Light‚ Color‚ and Sound - 4th Six Weeks Project Fiber Optics Sara McCormack‚ Special Harris‚ K’sandra Cunningham‚ and Arkayza Ross Light‚ Color‚ and Sound – Fiber Optics An optical fiber is made up of a core‚ cladding‚ and a buffer. The cladding moves the light along the core by using total internal reflection. The core and the cladding are usually made of high-quality silica glass‚ but they can both be made of plastic as well. Connecting two optical fibers is done by fusion splicing
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Fiber Optics History of Fiber Optics History Of Fiber Optics In 1870‚ John Tyndall‚ using a jet of water that flowed from one container to another and a beam of light‚ demonstrated that light used internal reflection to follow a specific path. • Alexander Graham Bell patented an optical telephone system‚ which he called the Photophone • He dreamed of sending signals through the air‚ but the atmosphere didn’t transmit light as reliably as wires carried electricity. • During the 1920s‚ John
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Fiber Optics Fiber Optic Cable Facts "A relatively new technology with vast potential importance‚ fiber optics is the channeled transmission of light through hair-thin glass fibers." [ Less expensive than copper cables [ Raw material is silica sand [ Less expensive to maintain If damaged‚ restoration time is faster (although more users are affected) [ Backbone to the Information Superhighway Information (data and voice) is transmitted through the fiber digitally by the use of high
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Fiber optics is a cable that is quickly replacing out-dated copper wires. Fiber optics is based on a concept known as total internal reflection. It can transmit video‚ sound‚ or data in either analog or digital form . Compared to copper wires it can transmit thousands of times more data (slide 2) . Some of its general uses are telecommunications‚ computing‚ and medicine. <br> <br>The very first "fiber" was made in 1870 by the British physicist John Tyndal. In this experiment that he showed to the
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Mass Fluid Mechanics & Properties of Matter Gravitation Projectile Motion Rigid Body Dynamics Surface Tension Unit & Dimension Modern Physics Electromagnetic Waves & Communication Modern Physics Semiconductors Optics Geometrical Optics & Physical Optics Wave Optics SHM & Waves SHM String Wave Grand Total No of Questions 9 2 2 1 2 2 2 1 1 7 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 5 2 2 1 4 2 2 3 2 1 30 Total Marks 36 8 8 4 8 8 8 4 4
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Sof-Optics‚ Inc. 1. See attached slide on final page 2. There are a number of problems facing Sof-Optics (detailed below). The most severe problems are in the CSR department: a. Major problems: i. Going forward‚ Sof-Optics will be under pressure to lower prices since B&L (the industry leader) just slashed prices by 25%. This is especially troubling‚ given the point that follows… ii. Loss of customers (and sales) due to long customer service wait times or lack of phone lines available (i
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Descartes Optics Descartes’s theories of light and vision were central components of his natural philosophy‚ closely linked to his cosmology‚ physics‚ theory of matter‚ and theory of perception. Descartes replaced traditional explanations of natural phenomena with explanations hidden under terms of matter and motion. By eliminating these theories‚ Descartes needed to formulate new explanations of the qualities of bodies and our perception of them. In other words Descartes goes on to call into
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Different liquids(water‚ kerosene‚ oil‚ spirit etc.) Drawing pins Pencil Half meter scale Thumb pins Graph papers A protractor INTRODUCTION: In optics‚ a prism is a transparent optical element with flat‚ polished surfaces that refract light. The exact angles between the surfaces depend on the application. The traditional geometrical shape is that of a triangular prism with a triangular base and rectangular sides‚ and in colloquial use "prism" usually refers to this type. Some types of
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Focus On W Wave Front Technology - Part 1 Measuring Eye Aberrations and Correction with Contact Lenses? By John de Brabander‚ PhD‚ FAAO. John de Brabander is Senior Lecturer at the University of Maastricht‚ The Netherlands. His teaching and research assignments involve all aspects of measuring the human visual system in relation to diagnosticprocedures and optical correction.In a series of three articles‚ John will give us the backgrounds we need to understand the basis of wave front
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describe effects unlike what geometrical optics would predict: the edges of shadows are not quite sharp; the beam passed by a slit is not a narrow rectangle. Diffraction patterns carry information about the spacing and location of the elements in the diffraction grating that produced them. Conversely‚ if we know the structure of the grating‚ we can deduce properties about the incident light‚ in particular its wavelength. This will be our task‚ in this first optics lab exercise. The analysis of
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