Optical Fiber Technology

:: What is optical fiber cleaving?Simply put, optical fiber cleaving is the art of cutting glass optical fibers at a perfect 90° angle with a mirror like surface. This isn't as easy as it sounds.Why do we need to cut the fiber at a perfect 90°...

:: Duct/Innerduct materials and colors:Fiber ducts are usually made from HDPE (high-density polyethylene), PVC or other compound. They are usually in black or gray. Fiber innerduct is usually orange or yellow.:: Why usually fiber ducts and innerducts are...

The two most common outdoor fiber optic cable installations are pole line aerial installation and underground cable installation. Underground cable installation can be buried directly underground or placed into a buried duct.Direct burial...

If you don't know much about fiber optics then you are not the only one. Even though fiber optics has been around for almost 60 years now it has just recently become something that has an effect on the everyday person and in most of the cases that person...

Why is proper fiber optic cable management so critical?Service providers have deployed more and more fiber optic cables for their high bandwidth, low costs, greater reliability and flexibility. But just deploying is not enough; a successful fiber network...

Just like copper cables, NEC (National Electrical Code) requires indoor fiber optic cables be marked with their fire and smoking ratings. NEC requires all indoor fiber cables be marked correctly and installed properly for its intended use.According to...

The use of fiber optic systems is expanding at a amazing rate. Only in the past 10 years, fiber optic communications systems have replaced almost all coaxial and twisted pair cables especially in network backbones. This is especially true in any long...

What happens if a major fiber optic cable is cut or a major hubbing location is destroyed in a fiber network? Will the whole system be brought down?That is the subject of this article: the survivability of a well designed fiber network.Modern fiber optic...

Photonics, optoelectronics, spectroscopy, and other scientific terms sound like some words a scientist made up (well technically they did), but they are actually descriptions of a very specialized field of particle physics called Photonics.In laymens...