Fiberscope

Fiberscope are one of the most important outcomes of the science of fiber optics. Fiber made of glass and transparent acrylics plastic are capable of conveying light energy, and when thousand of these fibers are combined in what is called a fiberscope, they can transmit images. The most common fiberscope contain about 750,000 fibers, each 0,001 cm, or 10 microns, in diameter. For certain uses, the diameter of the fiber may be a small as 5 microns.

Fiberscope have a wide range of application. In the medical field, physicians use fiberscope to examine internal organs and as an aid in delicate surgeries. Miniature probes heve also been developed to view muscle fiber, skin tissue, and blood cells. Fiberscope have also found varied uses in industry, particularly to inspect or control operations in inaccessible areas. Bundles of fibersope fused together in a solid plate, called a faceplate, are being used in the manufacture of television picture tubes and other cathode-ray tube devices.
The most far-reaching applications of fiber-optic technology are in communication. Optical fibers carry voice message for telephone service. The sound of the voice is electronically broken down into thousand of pulses of light through the optical fibers. At the reconstructed. Light-wave communication system can handle and immensely greater number of telephone calls and television programs than the current system, and they will form the basis of the "electronic superhighway" expected to crisscross the nation in the near future of the information age.