Fiber optics were conceived in the late 1950’s by Sam Divita; when his superior asked him to find a replacement for copper wire, he wondered if light impulses could be transferred via a glass or plastic fiber.

His forward thinking conception came fruition in 1985, when fiber optics began to replace the traditional copper wire. Today, fiber optics is a multi-million dollar business. Fiber optics allowed the technical industry to reach heights that were once unheard of due to the limitations that copper wire presented. Now almost all communication lines that are implemented or replaced are using fiber optics.

Fiber optics allow data transfer rates to increase ten fold from traditional copper as well as being stable and inexpensive, making it ideal for today’s high speed world. Developers are looking at expanding the data transfer rate too as much as ten-gigabyte speeds with the utilization of fiber optics.

Fiber optics are not only being used in the technology industry, designers have embraced this relative new technology and implemented them into their designs for lighting a home or office. With fiber optics we are all wondering what’s going to come next with this versatile and innovative technology.