Carpe diem is a Latin aphorism, usually translated seize the day, taken from the Roman poet Horace 's Odes (23 BC). 1  1 Translation.
Fiber optics (optical fibers) are long, thin strands of very pure glass about the diameter of a human hair. They are arranged in bundles called optical cables and used to transmit light signals over long distances. If you look closely at a single optical fiber, you will see that it has the following parts: 1  Core-Thin glass center of the fiber where the light travels. 2  Cladding-Outer optical material surrounding the core that reflects the light back into the core.
An optical fiber (or optical fibre) is a flexible, transparent fiber made of high quality extruded glass (silica) or plastic, slightly thicker than a human hair.It can function as a waveguide, or âlight pipeâ, to transmit light between the two ends of the fiber. 9. 2  Special-purpose fiber â¢ Some special-purpose optical fiber is constructed with a non-cylindrical core and/or cladding layer, usually with an elliptical or rectangular cross-section. â¢ 3  These include polarization-maintaining fiber and fiber designed to suppress whispering gallery mode propagation.