The Romans must have been particularly pleased with themselves the day they invented lead pipes around 2000 years ago. At last, they had an easy way to carry their water…

You hear about fiber-optic cables whenever people talk about the telephone system, the cable TV system or the Internet. Fiber-optic lines are strands of optically pure glass as thin as a human hair that carry…

Think back to what medicine was like only a hundred years ago. Suppose you're a 19th-century physician and a patient knocks on your door complaining of acute pains in their…

  A fiber optic cable is a network cable that contains strands of glass fibers inside an insulated casing. They're designed for long distance, very high-performance data networking, and telecommunications.Compared to wired cables,…

Where copper cabling uses electricity to transmit signals from one end to another, fiber optics use light pulses to accomplish the same purpose. The fiber optic cable is made of…

FEATURES Application: silicon optical fiber Cutting the bare fiber diameter: 125um Optical fiber coating diameter: 250-900um Cutting angle: 0.5 (single core fiber) Blade cutting life: 48000 times

What is a fusion splicer? Fusion splicing is the act of joining two optical fibers end-to-end using heat. The goal is to fuse the two fibers together in such a…