Fiber 101

One example of Corning’s commitment to education and technical support is through our
Fiber 101 program. The link below will provide selected concepts from our Fiber 101 program to help illustrate some of the basic concepts of optical fiber, such as:

core and cladding
multimode vs. single-mode
mode field diameter
total internal reflection
numerical aperture
attenuation
dispersion
polarization mode dispersion

For further details about our Fiber 101 program, please contact your Corning account representative.

Launch Fiber 101 tutorial and learn the basics about optical fiber.