Could Fiber Optic Wires Transfer Biological Nerve Signals?
Biological nerve pulses are generated by differences in the concentrations of certain chemicals in response to stimuli. This causes other chemicals to be released, electrical potentials to be created and the nerve impulse passed to the next nerve cell, where the whole lot is repeated again. Eventually the nerve impulse reaches its target – the brain or a muscle or whatever. Fiber optic wires are very thin strands of glass which transfer a beam of light along their length, with the beam bouncing off of the internal walls of the thin strand rather than escaping through the surface. The light beam is modulated to pass information and this makes the beam pulse (flicker) very rapidly. At the receiving end, the flickering beam hits a photoelectric cell at a device called a demodulator. This converts it into a pulsing electrical current which is then used by whatever other device is connected to the demodulator to read the information, and act upon it. So, no, it is just a bit unlikely that a
