The Fibre Optics technology is used all around the world for high speed communication and for medical procedures. But did you know that this ground-breaking technology was a brainchild of an Indian-born American physicist Dr. Narinder Singh Kapany? Also known as “Father of Fibre Optics”, he was named as one of the seven ‘Unsung Heroes’ by Fortune magazine in their ‘Businessmen of the Century’ issue. Today, a plethora of industries including the – medical, military, telecommunications, industrial, data storage, networking, and broadcast industries uses the fibre optic technology in a variety of applications. However, the telecommunications industry is the dominant user of the fibre optic technology.
Optical fibres has been a revolutionary technology and it represents the ‘brick’ or the core component to build up the new “highways” – which connects continents, making possible simultaneous communications among millions of people with transmission rate of tens of millions of Mbps. In addition, access networks to optically connect businesses and homes have thus culminated in the evolution of the Fibre to the Home (FTTH) networks.
The optic fibre cable technology has brought unparalleled progress in various industries; owing to the ability of transmitting data using pulses of light has opened the door for many world-changing innovations. Various advantages of the optical fibre cables such as: enormous bandwidths, low transmission loss, immunity to cross talk, electrical isolation, small size, low cost, signal security and ruggedness and flexibility, have paved a way for the tremendous growth the optical fibre cable market has attained.
