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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: 18 Aug 1992 23:19:47 GMT
- From: dmr@rugrat.Corp.Sun.COM (Daniel M. Rosenberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Fiber-Optic Cable Demo
- Reply-To: dmr@rugrat.Corp.Sun.COM
- Message-ID: <telecom12.643.10@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 643, Message 10 of 13
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- In article 3@eecs.nwu.edu, rah@btr.com (Richard A Hyde rah@btr.com)
- writes:
-
- > Suppose, on a dark night, (hypothetically, mind you), I dug up a major
- > fiber trunk and sliced it in half. What would I see? Could I use it
- > like a flashlight? Would the cut end sparkle (assuming that the
- > computer continued to send data)? Would there just be a dim glow?
-
- At least from my experience ... one end would be dark (that's the end
- that goes to the receiver) and the other end would show a reasonably
- bright red light (if that's the kind of laser used in the sending
- equipment). It's not quite enough to use as a flashlight.
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