The invention of Optical Fibre Communications at STL in 1966
Sir Charles K.Kao
2009 Nobel Prize in Physics
Historic interviews with Charles Kao
Video of Charles in
the lab
February 1966
See the young Charles Kao connecting a prototype single-mode optical fibre to a
measurement test rig at Standard Telecommunications Laboratories,
Harlow, Essex, UK
Video Courtesy of Nortel
1982 UK TV (Anglia Television)
Short interview as part of a TV programme about the
1982 Faraday Lecture: The Photon Connection.
Interview
at
Standard Telecommunications Laboratories,
Harlow, Essex, CM17 9NA, UK
Video Courtesy of Anglia television
2004 Interview with Charles from
IEEE Global History Network
Interview Conducted by Robert
Colburn, IEEE History Center, 26 February 2004
See also:
Talks from 25 year celebration of fibre optics, held at London Science Museum in 1991
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TV documentary of Charles Kao's story