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Fiber Optics Overview
Home » Industrial Equipment » Fiber Optics » Fiber Optics OverviewFiber optic lines are strands of optically pure glass as thin as a human hair that carries digital information over long distances. Fiber optic cables are used in the telephone systems, the cable television systems, the Internet, and also in medical imaging and mechanical engineering inspection.
In recent years it has become apparent that fiber optics are steadily replacing copper wire as an appropriate means of communication signal transmission. They span the long distances between local phone systems as well as providing the backbone for many network systems. Other system users include cable television services, university campuses, office buildings, industrial plants, and electric utility companies.
A fiber-optic system is similar to the copper wire system that fiber optics is replacing. The difference is that fiber-optics use light pulses to transmit information down fiber lines instead of using electronic pulses to transmit information down copper lines.
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