The resultsshow that 82bwirerodbrittlefractureismainlycaused by excessiveinclusion, reticulatecarbide, lowersorbitein themicrostructure, andsurfacedefect of wire rod.
This defect allows one otherwise excluded wavelength to travel through the wire, permitting extremely precise filtering that could, in principle, be used to resolve many hundreds of individual signals carried along an individual fibre.