There are a lot of remarkable uses for optical fiber, chief among them being telecommunications and imaging. While fiber can be produced for a better price than copper wire equivalents ...

See fiber Bragg grating. An optical fiber cable that has connectors installed on one or both ends. See "pigtail" and "patch cord" in this glossary. A range of wavelengths from 1530 to 1565 nm.

A thin strand of glass designed for light transmission. A single hair-thin optical fiber is capable of transmitting trillions of bits per second. In addition to their huge transmission capacity ...