How Do Fiber Optic Connectors work? The history of fiber optic telecommunication deserves an entire book on its own because it took several generations to reach the state of the art today.
Optical fiber is a long thin cylindrical fiber that is made of plastic or glass, smaller than one tenth of a human hair. A standard telecom optical fiber comprises three layers of cylindrical shape, arranged from the inside out as fiber core (diameter 8x10um), the cladding (diameter of 125um) along with buffer coating (diameter 9000um). …