Sunday, June 2, 2013

How Does Optical Fibre Work


Silly British professor spelled fiber wrong.

Total internal reflection seems a simple enough concept, but to envision is causing the light signal to bounce down and down and down a flexible, glass rod effectively into infinity is a little harder to imagine. Here a British professor explains the concept of total internal reflection as it works along an optical fiber (or fibre for the Brits).

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