Thursday 25 December 2014

Optic fibre Christmas Tree

I was interested in how a tree I saw produced the different colours at the tips of the branches. I know it uses optic fibres to bring the light up from below but assumed that it used LEDs. I was wrong.
It's actually a patterned colour filter disc that has a halogen lamp shining through it from below. The core of the tree is then an optic fibre bundle shown below that fans out to make the branches.