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TWEPP 2012 Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics

17–21 Sept 2012
Oxford University, UK
Europe/Zurich timezone

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P1

Opto
18 Sept 2012, 09:00
Oxford University, UK

Oxford University, UK

<font face="Verdana" size="2"><b>Clarendon Laboratory</b> Parks Road OX1 3PU, Oxford, United Kingdom

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P1: The World Wide Web of Glass: The Past, Present and Future of Fibre Optics

  • Francois Vasey (CERN)

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  1. 172. The World Wide Web of Glass: The Past, Present and Future of Fibre Optics
    Prof. David Richardson (University of Southampton)
    18/09/2012, 09:00
    Using sun and reflectors, communicating with light goes back thousands of years. But with the advent of lasers and optical fibres in the later half of the past century a revolution occurred in the telecommunications industry. A single fibre made of a flexible strand of ultra-pure silica, with a width not much greater than that of a human hair, has the capacity to transmit more than 250 million...
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