Episode 46

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In this video I demonstrate how to couple Lasers into Fiber Optic cable quickly and easily using a fiber visual fault locator, some mirrors and some DIY fiber collimators.
I also couple light into Multimode and Singlemode fiber, and demonstrate what happens when you exceed a fiber's bend-radius.
Fiber optics is far more interesting than just telecoms, there a variety of unusual applications including high voltage sensing , temperature measurement and more!

I have a couple of way interesting projects in the pipeline exploring cool stff with fiber optics, so subscribe!

0:00 Intro
0:08 Fiber optic cables
2:06 Fiber Colimator
3:14 Coupling Light DIY Fiber couplers and Collimators
5:54 Visual Fault Locator
7:51 Coupling a Laser into a Fiber Optic
11:55 Coupling into single mode cable
13:00 Fiber Bend Radius
13:46 Outro and credits