The invention of Optical Fibre Communications at STL in 1966
Sir Charles K.Kao
2009 Nobel Prize in Physics
Optical Communications History
Photo Gallery
Early Photos
Ideas that failed, ideas that worked
Progress!
Fibre loss tumbles
Hitchin-Stevenage Field
Demo
140Mbit/sec each way, carrying real traffic
Now all the parts had to be conceived and developed
Undersea
transoceanic systems
The most challenging for reliability and distance