The OP said he couldn't find anything applicable when he was looking for "light pipe". So, I offered him a suggestion for why. Ultimately, we are talking about locating something using a search engine.
The public has taken to the high tech sounding term "fiber optic" to describe what used to be called a light pipe. If it is thin, and flexible, and moves light from one location to another, it will be known to most people as "fiber optic". As an example, sitting here on my workbench is a light that I use to illuminate objects under my Olympus stereo microscope. It is made by Nikon, and has the following words inscribed on its panel: "NIKON, Inc. MKII Fiber Optic Light" Do you imagine that it is a precision glass or plastic waveguide, or just a flexible light pipe? -Chuck Harris paul swed wrote:
That is a good suggestion. But I fall into the camp. "Not really that important now." At least not to get me to pull it out of the rack. :-) The little LED are pretty bright and I remember some broadcast equipment used light pipes. OK now I am going to get silly but this is time-nuts. I think light pipe and fiber optics are two different terms. Yes they both pass light. But a fiber optic is a precision glass or plastic waveguide. A light pipe is a bulk piece of plastic that is not a wave guide in respect to the accuracy of the walls. Oh I am so doomed now that I said that. Regards Paul WB8TSL
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