If such materials became generally available to the optics industry the payoffs from such a breakthrough would be enormous.如果这些材料能够普遍用于光学产业，那么这一突破带来的收益将非常巨大。As fiber optics are immune to electromagnetic interference, they are better for signal transmission than wire cables.光纤因不会受到电磁波的干扰，所以比一般的金属线更适于传达讯号。