Certified fiber optics courses Springfield - The Workforce Development office at Springfield Technical Community College is offering a "Certified Fiber Optics Technician Course (CFOT), starting Monday ...

Wednesday was day one of the two-day fusion splicing seminar at Ivy Tech Community College. Fusion splicing is the process in which fiber optic cables are connected by heat, a process often used in ...

In the early days of fiber optics, telephone cable repairmen crouched in tents to splice cables under a microscope. It wasn’t the best working environment: Airborne dust landed on the severed ends of ...

Since optical fiber has the characteristic that 'light reflects inside as it travels,' even the slightest misalignment is not permitted when connecting optical fibers. For this reason, a fusion ...