“ FIBER OPTICS BASED COMPUTER

NETWORK”

A TECHNICAL SEMINAR REPORT

Submitted By

SATYAJIT SATPATHY
• Introduction
CONTENTS
• What is an optical fiber?
• Advantages of optical fiber
• Disadvantages of optical fiber
• Logic behind Optical fiber transmission
• Application in different fields
• Types of fiber
• Optical computing
• Types of cables
• Brief idea about connectors
• Connector cleaning
• Conclusion
 INTRODUCTION
 The use of light for the transmission of
information is far from a new idea.
Fiber optics is a relatively new technology that
uses rays of light to send information over hair-
thin fibers at blinding speeds.
These fibers are used as an alternative to
conventional copper wire in a variety of
applications such as those associated with
security, telecommunications, instrumentation
and control, broadcast or audio/visual systems.
 WHAT IS AN OPTICAL
FIBER
An optical fiber is a wave guide for light
consists of :
core inner part where wave propagates
cladding outer part used to keep wave in core
buffer protective coating
jacket outer protective shield

can have a
connector
too
 ADVANTAGES OF OPTICAL
FIBER
•Small Size
•Light Weight
•High Bandwidth
•No Short Circuits
•Fewer Repeaters
•Noise Immunity
•Transmission Security
 DISADVANTAGES OF
OPTICAL FIBER
•Cost
•Taps
•Fear of New Technologies
LOGIC BEHIND OPTICAL
FIBER TRANSMISSION
 APPLICATION IN
DIFFERENT FIELDS

•SUBMERGED SYSTEM
•MILITARY APPLICATIONS
•CIVIL APPLICATIONS
•CONSUMER APPLICATIONS
•INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
•OPTICAL COMPUTING
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singlemode multimode
TYPES OF FIBERS
 OPTICAL COMPUTING
• An optical computer is a device that uses visible
light or infrared beams, rather than electric current,
to perform digital computations.
• Optical computers promise speeds, which will be
thousands, even millions of times faster than those
of today's most efficient supercomputers.
• The optical computer could revolutionize computing
in much the same way that the semiconductor chip
revolutionized electronics 30 years ago.
• An electric current flows at only about 10 percent of
the speed of light.
 TYPES OF CABLES
• DISTRIBUTION CABLE
• INDOOR/OUTDOOR TIGHT BUFFER CABLE
• INDOOR/OUTDOOR BREAKOUT CABLE
• LOOSE TUBE CABLE
• AERIAL CABLE/SELF-SUPPORTING CABLE
• HYBRID & COMPOSITE CABLE
• ARMORED CABLE
• SMOKE ZERO HALOGEN CABLE
 BRIEF IDEA ABOUT
CONNECTORS
•Connectors are used to join two fibers together, or to
connect a fiber to a piece of equipment
•There are two main ways of describing optical connectors
- by the family or type of connector, and by the type of end
finish that they have.
Main types of connectors include 1. Epoxy & polish
2. Pre-loaded epoxy or no-epoxy & polish
3. No-epoxy & no-polish
 CONNECTOR CLEANING
• Connector damage can occur if foreign particles are
caught in the end face area of mated connectors.
• Connector cleaning is simply completed by wiping
the connector ferrule and end face with some
isopropyl alcohol and a lint free tissue.
• Another option for connector cleaning is the
cassette type cleaners which use a dry tape system
where the tape is advanced every time the cassette
is opened ensuring the clean section of tape is used
each time.
 CONCLUSION

•The applications of the fiber optics field are still emerging

and developing so rapidly that, it is impossible to keep
track each and every innovations and inventions.
•All the above compilations gives idea about the
tremendous potential associated with this field.
• The future is not so distant when scientists and
researchers will come up with more and more futuristic
products and applications using optical fibers.
THANK YOU