Conveners
P1: The World Wide Web of Glass: The Past, Present and Future of Fibre Optics
- Francois Vasey (CERN)
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...
