Scientists Develop Fiber Optic Light

Scientists from the University of Adelaide found that the light can be converted into an optical fiber thinner than previously thought.

The discovery is expected to open the gate to find a more efficient tool for data processing in the field of optical telecommunications networks and optical computing.

As quoted from TG Daily, Saturday (14/11/2009), data before assigning a diameter optical fiber is hundreds of nanometers. If smaller view of this size, the light will begin to break and spread everywhere.

But Professor Tanya Monro of the Federation Fellow at the University of Adelaide found that this light can be forced above this limit, with at least two factors influenced.

This can be known thanks to new breakthroughs in theoretical understanding of the nature of light in nano-scale and the use of a new generation of nano-scale optical fiber developed by the Institute for Advanced Photonics & Sensing (IPAS).

"With fiber optics can be used as a sensor rather than using it as a light-emitting tube, we can develop a device that can detect a variety of things. For example, the presence of flu virus at the airport, helping invitro fertilization, or IVF (in vitro fertilization) in determining which egg cells are potentially in fertilization and so forth, "says Monro.