FIBER OPTIC BASIC TRAINING

OBJECTIVES
• To provide you with the tools you need
to learn, the aspects of fiber optic
theory, how it works, brief history,
uses, common types of cable and
connectors, hardware, cable
termination, polishing, insertion loss
and testing.
Brief History of Fiber Optics

• 1790 - the French Chappe brothers invented the first "optical

telegraph.“
• 1840s - physicists Daniel Collodon and Jacques Babinet showed
that light could be directed along jets of water for fountain
displays.
• 1854 - John Tyndall, a British physicist, demonstrated that light
could travel through a curved stream of water thereby proving
that a light signal could be bent.
• 1880 - Alexander Graham Bell patented an optical telephone
system called the photophone
- William Wheeler invented a system of light pipes lined
with a highly reflective coating that illuminated homes