What is Fiber Optics ?

What is Fiber Optics ?

Basically, fiber optics is made from glass and contains 3 main structures.
a. Core
b. Cladding
c. Buffer

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Light travels inside the fiber optics core..

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The cladding causes light to be confined to the core of the fiber by total internal reflection at the boundary between the two due to differences in refractive index between fiber core and cladding. 
The cladding refractive index (n1) is lower than fiber core refractive index (n2)

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The buffer is basically made from plastic to provide addtional protection to both fiber optics and cladding.

During the process of splicing or jointing fiber optics, the buffer which is of size 250micron will be removed. This process is called stripping.

Stripper is used to strip off fiber optics buffer

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