How do fiber optic connectors work? The history of fiber optic communications is an entire book on its own as it took a number of generations to reach the state of the art that we have today.

Optic fiber is a thin cylindrical fiber that is made of plastic or glass, as tiny as one tenth of a human hair. A standard telecom optical fiber comprises three layers of cylindrical shape, arranged inside out the fiber core (diameter 8~10um) and the cladding (diameter 130um) as well as buffer layer (diameter 90um). Fiber…

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