On the large scale, data transmission by light has long become a matter of routine:
Glass fiber cables as light waveguides transmit telephone and internet signals, for instance.
Not exact matches
FRANKFURT, May 3 (Reuters)- A lobby group representing Germany's
glass fiber industry says a European merger between Vodafone and Liberty Global should be blocked because it would create a
cable TV monopoly in Germany.
Corning's profit and revenue topped analysts» estimates in the third quarter, driven by strong demand for its Gorilla
Glass smartphone screens and its
fiber optic
cables.
Fiber - optic
cables consist of a bundle of hairlike
glass rods through which information is transmitted by pulses of laser light.
When manufacturing
fiber optic
cable, filaments of plastic - coated
glass strands are bundled in concentric helical layers around a central core: 12, 24, 48 (or more) exquisitely thin mile - long strands piled adjacent to each other, transmitting information encoded as pulses of light, tightly bound together yet never quite touching.
Remember, TOSLINK
cables are
fiber optic, and because the
cables are either entirely plastic or plastic and
glass, there is no electrical conductivity to transfer the ground loop noise.