How do fiber optic connectors work? The history of fiber optic telecommunications deserves a book by itself as it took a number of generations to reach the state of the art today.
Optical fiber is a long thin, cylindrical fiber made of glass or plastic, smaller than one tenth of the human hair. A typical optical fiber for telecom is composed of three cylindrical layers, counted from the inside out as fiber core (diameter 810um) as well as the cladding (diameter of 125um) along with buffer coating …