Qualified Optical Fiber Cable: Patch Cord, Bifurcated Fiber, Solarization Resistant Fiber

If we look at the nitty-gritty behind the working methodology of optical cable, it is basically each photon (a particle of light) gets transmitted through Total Internal reflection i.e. it hits the glass at a shallow angle (less than 42 degrees) and reflects again and again. Apart from the above-mentioned phenomenon that keeps light inside the pipe, there is also one more extra feature which restricts the light from emerging out of the cable is the structure of the cable. The cable consists of two parts primarily the core and another one called cladding. The core is that part of the cable through which light is being transmitted. It is surrounded by another layer of glass called cladding whose main objective is to keep the light signals inside the core. It can be done through cladding because it is made up of the different types of glass material and has a lower refractive index that restricts the light from going outside of the core.