There seems to be some confusion here! Visible light was being used - to see things, for example - millions of years before optical fibres were invented!
Yes, light is the primary signal carrier in optical fibers. It travels through the fiber as pulses of light, typically in the form of laser or LED signals. Other signals such as electrical signals can be converted into light signals at the source and back to electrical signals at the receiving end.
No optical mice do not have lasers in them, they use LED's (light emmiting diodes).
In 1952, physicist Narinder Singh Kapany conducted experiments that led to the invention of optical fiber
The LED itself is visible, the light it emits is not. You can "see" the light by looking at it through a camera, for example the one on your cellphone!
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(Light Emitting Diode) A display and lighting technology used in almost every electrical and electronic product on the market, from a tiny on/off light to digital readouts, flashlights, traffic lights and perimeter lighting. Led or Led Lighting are also used as the light source in multimode fibers, optical mice and laser-class printers.
stars, flashlights, toasters, CFLs, LEDs, fireflies
A visible object that is not a light source is any other object in the universe. Objects that are not light sources reflect light and are thus made to be visible.Examples include:planetspeoplethe mooncarsdogsflowersbooksrocks, either in daylight, or else illuminated by a flashlighta light bulb or LED with the power switched off
A fluorescent light bulb contains a phosphor coating on the inner surface of the bulb, which converts ultraviolet light produced by the mercury vapor inside the bulb into visible light. LED light bulbs do not contain phosphors but instead use semiconductors to directly convert electrical energy into visible light.
LED light bulbs emit light across the visible light spectrum, which includes all the colors of the rainbow. This spectrum ranges from violet to red, with different wavelengths corresponding to different colors. LED bulbs can be designed to emit specific colors or a combination of colors to create white light.
by applying a voltage across the boundary of two semi-conductors electrons are forces to travel across the boundary. This boundary has a voltage drop and the electrons are required to lose a discrete amount of energy in crossing it. In the case of the light emitting diode, it is a energy in the range of visible light.
The optical diffraction limit refers to the physical limit on the resolution of an optical system, defined by the diffraction of light as it passes through an aperture. It sets a boundary on the smallest resolvable features in an image produced by an optical system. Efforts to improve resolution beyond the diffraction limit have led to advancements in techniques such as super-resolution microscopy.