Fiber optic cables: How they work
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2011
- Bill uses a bucket of propylene glycol to show how a fiber optic cable works and how engineers send signal across oceans. More info at www.engineerguy.com. You can translate captions at www.engineerguy.com/translate
- Наука та технологія
My favorite engineer, Mark Hamill.
I actually get more notice for these than for the Star Wars movies nowadays.
He does kinda look like him lol
@@engineerguyvideo Either way is pretty cool sir!
@@bobbq8380 he is him
I was seriously looking for this comment just now.
I could listen to this guy talk about anything
haha
It is incredible how his information about anything make us see everything from what it is: an amazing achievment in engineering!
I want to hear him talk about where babies come from
I have no clue what he's saying but his confidence helps me
same
I had asked this question in my I.T class about 12 years ago. Finally got the answer at 2:14am. It is amazing.
@Ricky Smith “I”
@@Onserio. who is I and who got the answer?
Is there a radiation on fiber optic?
Are you sure coz I think it was 2:13 A.M
Or maybe your brain took a whole minute to register the damn thing!
@Ricky Smith Did you just Schrab this man?
engineerguy: I have a bucket
TF2 Soldier: DEAR GOD
I teleported bread! You told me too.. I have done nothing but teleport bread for 3 days!
*Zere's more...*
Titanfall 2 or team fortress
@@idkmyownnameplshelp9218 Team Fortress 2
*NO*
I love the background music. It sounds like the tutorial level of a RPG.
It made me super nostalgic about the educational shows I used to watch as a kid, they used this kind of music too.
What are you guys talking about its clash of clans music
@@devdua2880 lol
@@devdua2880 lol reminded me of that too
I want a tutorial on a rocket propelled grenade with this background music.
Have to appreciate countless past engineers and scientists who have shaped our world and open the doors for further discovery and engineering. Channels like this are an inspiration and deserve at least as many views at youtube's reaction or prank channels.
Frank Harrison the mvps irl
Beautiful words, my man. Beautiful.
Narinder Singh kapany is the the scientist who created fiber optics. Credit should be given to a discovery with which we are able to come in this digital age and watch such youtube videos
agreed... prank youtube channels should be banned, they are stupid fake and annoying, edit: and most importantly dumb
@@rameshjha2264 just one of many engineers that led to its invention.
Bill, I am a network engineer and studied and employed Asynchronous Transfer Mode for a city in Oregon. My most common challenge was refraction changes due to over-eager "diggers" and cable-installers on the poles. Sometimes, the glass fiber cable would develop and "fracture" or break. This was like a monkey wrench in the works and so I truly appreciate your discussion of refraction. I love the engineer's perspective and your clear and concise teaching method!!!
Fiber seeking backhoes are a menace. I was on the help desk for a cable ISP when an entire state was taken out by one.
My name is welcome
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i am a fish!
WHO’S COMING RIGHT NOW HUH ?! IF YOUR COMING LET ME SEE IT !
Why are people disliking a purely informative video
+Simon WoodburyForget then why click the video?
+sub tractive why are you asking
+sub tractive Because people want to turn away from the truth and go back to burning witch's on the steak...
+sub tractive probably the australian government
sub tractive
Because intellects are liberals, and the whole point of the internet is to empower the opinions of the ignorant.
Really underrated channel.
GrV Kar true that
It has almost 3 million views, it can't be that underrated.
LAHegarty people are too stupid to be interested
Agree...
It's not underrated.
I love the animation where the binary approximations on the graph merge into a single line of binary code. It's a nice touch and it helped me see what's going on. Thank you Sir!
Markle frier
this guy explains perfectly, not stupid like explaining to a 4 year old, and not overly complicated like explaining to a college student
Yes, but about the modulation part, he should have said a simple example of encoding rather saying that's the way we do things. Because no, we don't really do it like that.
@@howardlam6181 How is it actually done?
@@NN-sp9tu Well, first, the light is the carrier and we don't direct apply modulation on the carrier. You only mix the carrier with a modulated signal of much lower frequency.
Then, there are many more types of modulations. Surely you have heard of frequency modulation for example. You give each frequency a code and you sample a certain period of time to figure the frequency out. And there are many more advanced techniques to mix different techniques together to squeeze out every possible bit of information capacity potential.
See link for a picture how a mixed signal would look like.
www.elprocus.com/pulse-amplitude-modulation/
you mentioned 50k phone calls can be sent simultaneously. How come the signals don't irritate each other while being sent through the cable?
Excellent question ... google Wavelength-division multiplexing ... essential they use different colors of light.
Crazy impressive, thank you. Still mind blowing how so many different signals find their way to their destinations
engineerguy Why have you stopped making videos
The birth of my second child has slowed me down ... that and some writing.
congratitulations :) and greetings from México.
Fibre optic cable core
Wow, I always imagined the transatlantic cable as being so much larger! I figured it was over a foot in diameter, and marveled at the sheer amount of material it would have taken, but that it's able to be so small yet durable and able to transmit to much information is even more marvelous!
I don't think you understand
@@AverageAlien😅 idk where to start in correcting that comment
it seems that other guys are very gatekeepy, saying your comment is wrong but not wanting to correct it
1. the cable is indeed thick, thicker than that stereo cable, you can just google for the exact diameter (idk whether it's one foot or not since I use metric)
2. they use more than one cable, even between same region (such as NA and EU), both to increase bandwidth and also to be a backup in case one is broken
@@skyfeelanThank-you for being you. 👍
Wish I had watched these videos before all of my digital communications classes. The big picture overview explained in layman's terms are very helpful. Often professors speak as if they are talking to a room of experienced professionals making it very hard to follow. Thank you for the videos!
they do
Yeah, and then they act surprised when their students don't understand the subject.
That's why most engineers don't or can't work with passion. We don't have good engineering teachers.
The sample with the bucket is awesome. Love your videos. Thanks!
Also did he make a joke about adding creamer to the propylene glycol?
No ... that give the laser something to reflect from
For a moment I thought you added coffee creamer, and I thought it was like a joke towards people drinking bleach. Thanks for elaborating. :)
Marker & plier
His presentation is phenomenal. Educational, yet, despite not making a single joke or witty line, he makes it entertaining with his voice alone.
Hello everybody my name is Campfire
I'm so happy to see information presented in this style. No distracting questions. No personal confusions. Just principle and design explained clearly and efficiently.
Portuguese
Why is this on my recommendations?
nvm, I learned something new
They just hate anything that is good. Those are equivalent to the people who hate trump for doing such great things to America.
@@HoodrichShinobi what this has anything to with politics ?
Hello everybody my name is Portuguese
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You have the rare ability to make these topics very interesting, with simple explanations and very enjoyable manners. Thank you.
Wow.... Incredible... The most incredible part is how you took such complex information and explained it in such a wonderful way. Thank you.
I've studied all this in just theory. It's really amazing to see these theoretical concepts applied in real world. I just wish I had a professor like him.
High speed internet access
You knew why I came.
you better come right here, where I am
Who's coming? Are you coming?
If you're coming right now, let me see it!
Working for the phone company, we could use a flashlight to light up the other end of a fiber miles away so someone on the other end could confirm which fiber we were working with.
I found fiber optic cable to be absolutely fascinating.
I already understood this for the most part, but this was a great explanation with awesome visual aids.
Totally worth watching!
Bill I just wanna say I appreciate these videos of yours so much, I always come back to them.
if youre coming right now let me see it
I just love your made easy to understand videos and professional quality.
My college teachers couldn't made me understand optical fiber in a full semester.
you did it in just 5 mins..
hats off sir
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hello everybody my name is markplier
Hello everybody my name is Portuguese
@@firecode1252 You are so Portugese
This has the same energy as a 90's documentary
One of the best channels on UA-cam, great job man!
That is just absolutely jam-packed with information, all in a less than five minute video!
Great video, even for 2020. The beautiful effect along with his voice saying "that's wonderful" gave me goosebumps.
WOW. I just searched how does Optic Fiber works and I clicked in this video and now I am a subscriber. Excellent channel. God Bless you man.
Hello everybody my name is welcome
Why do I learn more on UA-cam than at school?
Because you watch what you want and what interests you, instead of getting all types of info crammed into your head
Banana Phone's answer is more accurate. The whole indoctrination thing, while real, does not have anything to do with this video, with learning, or even specifically with school, and does not explain why you learn more from a UA-cam video than from some lecture at school.
Congratz on being edgy, though.
@@RingRingRingBananaPhone most accurate comment .
I was confused by your dp for a second .
@@commanderleo Stop letting us know you have no idea what he's talking about
Because you are listening
Best and most concise explanation I’ve heard. Even explained how audio can be coded in binary in the time it takes to say it. Wow!
How did this make so much sense in such a small amount of time. 10/10 would learn again.
I literally just did a physics exam for this, and now you pop up.
Thanks a lot, UA-cam.
Oooo ok
Mark
Video quality this good from 9 years ago? Unreal. Bravo❗️
4 years ago I watched this exact video as it was a link from my grade 12 physics class on optics. Discovered this channel today and only now realized I had actually discovered this guy 4 years ago. Gladly watching this again.
It's amazing that they were explaining optical fibre 10 years back from now and Now we have this at our home as broadband connection.
STEM is is amazing ❤️
"In Tat-8 signal travels 50km before it needs to be amplified"
I was SO hoping you would show us HOW the signal gets amplified in a cable on the ocean floor.
It might just be some basic amplification method like some crystal that magnifies the incoming light?
I mean it would likely have to be implemented in the cable itself all along its length.
I also wanted him to explain that part.
Waiting
SAME
Likely through the usage of powered repeaters.
I'm guessing it might be some sort of lens that's gonna point all the rays back to the same angle they need to point in order to keep being reflected.
Third year engineering student here. Learned and talked about fiber optics in physics 2. I remember when my teacher asked the class if someone can think of an example of total internal reflection and I suggested fiber optics. This video blew my mind. Subscribed!
I could listen to him all day. What a great guy!! I definitely got the information I needed.
Thanks!
"I have a bucket..."
"This... is a bucket"
"Dear god"
"There's more"
Noo
I thought he was Mark Hamill for a while there
That's not Mark Hamill?
so i'm not the only one.
Perhaps he could explain how the light saber works.
bart simpson
lol
none has explained me analog to digital conversion better than this. Thank you the engineer guy.
I honestly barely understood this, but hats off to the brilliant people who came up with this, I can’t even imagine where to begin.
the demonstration was actually mindblowing........
i could like watch this channel the whole day!!
where were you bill when i was a kid!!!???
He was probably sending faxes, but you never left paper on the printer tray.
That was such a concise explanation of converting soundwaves to binary, thankyou!
Lovely illustration & explanation, he's quite gifted.
Popped up in recommendations after 8years.
Me too lol
Yep, same here. Worth the watch though.
Yes it showed up in recommendation out of nowhere, very informative video
Add me to the list, however my first video had to do with the Titanic and a while back I was doing research on it and other shipwrecks. But admittedly that was a year or so back, so maybe a coincidence.
UA-cam deep state at work?
make it 9
I'm blown away at the amount of work that has gone into these videos. I see evidence of absolutely fantastic preparations and post production work. I'm a professional UA-camr, father, volunteer, sole bread winner, and frankly I have as many hobbies as most Renaissance men. My channel is a one-man-band and it shows by comparison. Your ability to work with others and produce this body of work is fantastic!
Bruh u have zero subs and no vids u also don't even have a pfp XD
Videos that don't make me skip around or up the speed deserve my thumbs up
Amazing explanation! from 2011 but still perfect to understand how fiber works, brilliant!
This helped me for my test, bro!
How do they boost the signal within the cable?
In this early system (if I recall correctly) they converted the signal to an electricial signal and then used a conventional amplifer. In later system they used an amazing erbium based amplifer -- an EDFA -- that is an optical amplifer. It uses stimulated emission like a laser. The wikipedia article on "optical amplifer" explains the essential concept.
+engineerguy So they have stations in the middle of the sea with amps? Cool.
I had exactly the same question. Thanks for answering it!
Fucking Voodoo Magic Man!!!
Fucking Voodoo Magic Man!!!
I am a theology student with an interest in engineering and all things computers in general. You literally explained in 5 mins my biggest question that no professor sat down to help me understand.
this channel deserves so much more exposure.. jesus
Youre so Portuguese
Hello everybody my name is markiplier. Markiplier.
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What an absolutely amazing video! I love how you explain things!!!
Perfect combination of technical details and entertaining presentation.
I hate that "the more I learn, the more I don't know" feeling.
High-speed internet access.
I watch stuff like this and it really is awe inspiring. See, anything and everything can seem like magic but deep down, there’s always something that explains how & why something happens.
I have never seen someone explain a difficult concept in a way that is so easy to understand
hello everyone my name is multiplier
Aren't the best cables used today using a gradual change in the index of reflection along the radial direction of the cable such that internal reflection losses are minimized?
Man, you´re so good at explaining things!
outstanding explanation and the way of demonstrating is excellent.
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wow... just wow. You've explained this awesomely. Thank YOU!
I'm am going to share this video with my students. Awesome work!!
Released under Creative Commons so they can download, use, reversion, etc.
I don’t know why it’s in my recommendations either but I do know we both enjoyed our stay.
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Always wondered about this. THANK YOU!
such an amazing definition and animation, makes all clear..
This is incredible technology. :)
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falcoperegrinus82 Yes! #FEELTHEBERN
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Riperino
Excellent demo and explanation about a complex subject! All the more fascinating is Alexander Graham's Bell's photophone invention from 1880 that was the first wireless communication device. The photophone came 20 years earlier than the first radio transmission and was a predecessor to fiber optics.
Stumbled upon this and the injectionmolding vid. High quality stuff!
i always wondered how so many calls go through one wire at the same time
i looked up wavelength division multiplexing and it makes more sense now, but for the calls to appear in real time, doesn't that mean 1 bit alone would have to be transmitted 40k times in both directions in less then a second with each one being a different color before being able to move on to the second bit? if so thats amazing
I've placed hundreds of miles of fiber optic cable. Never really understanding how it worked. Now I'm watching this video while vaping on a electronic cigarette which uses propylene glycol. Things that make you say hmm. ✌️
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I like how you explain things, man.
This is one of the videos that actually explains how fiber optic cables work, not too simple nor too complex
Our teacher just showed us this two days ago and now it’s in my recommended 😂
We didn’t feel that you listen well enough in class.
@@engineerguyvideo why don’t you post videos anymore?
I will ... had two kids in the last five years ... you try living with a child between the ages of 2 and 3 and see what you can get done!
@@engineerguyvideo can we please have some dad jokes then ?
@@engineerguyvideo haha fair enough, love the vids
How this guy happens to be so awesome ?
I am so glad this channel was recommended to me.
You can make a video on watching paint dry or grass grow and I would still watch it.
Subscribed!!!!!
This guy made a video about how the algorithm works and it's mind-blowing!!! 🤯🤯🤯
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