About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 82. Chapters: Radioactive waste, Planetarium, Hydroxyl ion absorption, Optical fiber, Viscosity, Transparency and translucency, Glass transition, Ernst Abbe, Calculation of glass properties, Glass-to-metal seal, Applied element method, Glass recycling, ClearCurve, Optical lens design, Gradient-index optics, Toughened glass, Glass-ceramic, Glass coloring and color marking, Extreme Loading for Structures, Applied Science International, Barilla, Tempering, Glass batch calculation, Otto Schott, William Ernest Stephen Turner, American Ceramic Society, Planetarium projector, Spontaneous glass breakage, Viscosity of amorphous materials, Crazing, Devitrification, EN 1063, Heated glass, Fabrication and testing of optical components, Glass databases, Glass-ceramic-to-metal seals, Annealing, Nickel sulfide inclusion, Carl Hudecek, Glass code, Liquidus, Europium(III) oxide, Society of Glass Technology, Scotchlite, National School of Glass, Glazing, Lehr, Shading coefficient, Underglaze, Glass break detector, Glazier, Jena Observatory, Hydrogen darkening, Planetarium Jena, BS 857, Spicule, Bologna bottle, All-silica fiber. Excerpt: An optical fiber is a flexible, transparent fiber made of very pure glass (silica) not much wider than a human hair that acts as a waveguide, or "light pipe," to transmit light between the two ends of the fiber. The field of applied science and engineering concerned with the design and application of optical fibers is known as fiber optics. Optical fibers are widely used in fiber-optic communications, which permits transmission over longer distances and at higher bandwidths (data rates) than other forms of communication. Fibers are used instead of metal wires because signals travel along them with less loss and are also immune to electromagnetic interference. Fibers are also used for illumination, and are wrapped i...
