Write a paper on Fiber Optics: Development of Pure Glass.
I will pay for the following article Fiber Optics: Development of Pure Glass. The work is to be 6 pages with three to five sources, with in-text citations and a reference page. The ever increasing efficiency to transmit information globally has made the world to be regarded as a ‘global village’. Progress from the use of copper wires as a medium for the transfer of information to the use of optic cables serves as evidence of the great leap in technology over the centuries.
Of all the earlier transmission media, an increase in the volume of information that can be sent over a large distance at higher speed is the technological development that has been made a reality by the invention of fiber optic cables. However, for the above development to be realized, painstaking research has been done due to a myriad of problems that plagued this technology. Various events were crucial among them the invention of laser and development of pure glass which overall made optic communication practical.
Optical communication was still in use a long time ago. Fire and smoke were time and again used by the ancient man to relay messages from one mountain top to the other. In most cases, it was used to warn people about invasion or natural catastrophe. However, this form of communication had minimal transmission capacity as it is wholly dependent on a clear line of sight and favorable weather conditions (Mach, 46). In addition, anyone in the line of sight could get the message which advantageous to the enemies in case of an invasion. In England, Queen Elizabeth used systematically positioned bonfire to be used to warn people in case of invasion by sea from Spain. Smoke signals were also widely used by the Native Americans in message transmission.
The beginning of the 19th century saw the birth of the semaphore which had a capacity of transmitting a single letter per second though dependent on a clear line of sight. Unfortunately, this form of transmission was open to sabotage by enemies in its path as was done by Count of Monte Cristo. By the end of the 19th century, communication had shifted to the use of heliograph which used the sun’s rays to transmit coded information from one station to the other (Darrigol, 150). . .
