Fiber Optics

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Term Paper Title	Fiber Optics
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# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	8.66

Fiber Optics

Fiber Optics

Assignment

        Many modern medical materials and equipment work on a principle which is
beyond the capacity of human transducers.

        Comment and discuss the working principles of an endoscope, uteroscope
or a rectoscope showing the illuminating path, the image path, transmission path
and the liquid transfer or operating instrument ducts, showing the position of
suitable valves.

        This will therefore explain how light travels through an optical fibre
and show how such fibres are used in medicinal equipment either to transmit
light or to bring back images from within a patient.

Contents

        Fibre Optics

        Fibre-Optic Bundles

        Coherent and Incoherent Bundles

     Transimission efficiency and resolution

     Types of Fibres: Single mode or Multimode ?

     Fibre Properties

Fibre-Optic Endoscopy

     Introduction

     The Fibre-Optic Endoscope

     Some Applications for Fibre-Optic Endoscopy

References

Fibre Optics

A relatively new technology with vast potential importance, fibre optics, is the
channelled transmission of light through hair-thin glass fibres.

The clear advantages of fibre optics are too often obscured by concerns that
may have been valid during the pioneering days of fibre, but that have since
been answered by technical advances.

Fibre is fragile

An optical fibre has greater tensile strength than copper or steel fibres of the
same diameter. It is flexible, bends easily, and resists most corrosive
elements that attack copper cable. Optical cables can withstand pulling forces
of more than 150 pounds.

Fibre is hard to work with

This myth derives from the early days of fibre optic connectors. Early
connectors where difficult to apply; they came with many small parts that could
tax even the nimble fingered. They needed epoxy, curing, cleaving and polishing.
On top of that, the technologies of epoxy, curing, cleaving and polishing were
still evolving.

Today, connectors have fewer parts, the procedures for termination are well
understood, and the craftsperson is aided by polishing machines and curing ovens
to make the job faster and easier.

Even better, epoxyless connectors eliminate the need for the messy and time-
consuming application of epoxy. Polishing is an increasingly simple,
straightforward process. Pre-terminated cable  assemblies also speed
installation and reduce a once (but no longer) labour-intensive process.

Fibre Optic Bundles

If light enters the end of a solid glass rod so...

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