Optical Fiber
Inventions Changed Optical Fiber Image Optical fiber made from glass or plastic, is used to guide light from a source to another location. First used in the medicine to examine internal organs, the technology has since been developed for many applications, including telecommunications. Indian born Narinder Singh Kapany who born in 1927 is the father of fiber optics. While understanding research at imperial college in London in 1952, Kapany drew out fine filaments of optical quality glass and found that when he shone a light in one end, it emerged unchanged from the other, even if the fiber was first shown by Irish inventor John Tyndall, who used the principle to illuminate water foundation in the 1850s. "A teacher told Kapany that light could travel only in the straight line but Kapany set out to prove him wrong." Optical fiber illumination can be used for decorative applications like signs and artificial Christmas tree. Kapany discovered that light was guided ...