About Fiber Optics Christmas Tree

The future of our Christmas traditions includes some of the latest fiber optics. This year we bought a small fiber optics Christmas tree. It is white with about four different colors of light that it fades through.

Fiber Optic Sources

Fiber optics are not cheap, so it is hard to fathom how the manufacturer could afford to make a fiber optics Christmas tree from it that the home user could afford. The answer lay in the fact that it isn’t the same level of fiber optics as the network lines that are so well known. When the manufacturer makes this kind of fiber, the have to use a lot of specialized tests to weed all the fibers that have flaws and that won’t allow perfect data transmission out. These flaws can be as slight as an impurity in the line; light will still pass through, it just loses too much transmission quality to be used for data.

This leads to a completely new line of use. Rather than just toss these seconds out, they instead go to good uses in everything from fiber optics toys to the fiber optics Christmas tree. These find their way to the more casual consumer. The light will still pass through these lines, and since the most detailed data they will need to transmit is the color of that light, they are perfect.

Color, Lights and Action

Just how they get that color into the light is interesting in its simplicity. The fibers still have to be bundled into a fiber optic package, and then between that and the source a filter of the desired color is placed. When the light passes through the filter, it takes the color and transmits it to the connector. For a special magic, manufacturers will put more that one color onto a wheel, usually stored in the base of the fiber optics Christmas tree. They then attach this wheel to a motor that can rotate the colors before the connector. Then the light show can begin.

Traditions should never be stagnant things, most especially around the holidays. It wasn’t that many years ago that the artificial trees made their debut. Now most homes have one lurking in the attic. That will probably be the case with the fiber optics Christmas tree. A little odd at first, but more common as people circumvent the yearly detangling of the lights. Yet, I don’t expect the verse to change to how shiny are your branches anytime real soon.