Abstract
The history of optical fiber communications is traced from early research on low-loss glass materials in the mid 1960s through first commercial introduction of multimode fiber systems in the late 1970s to the present research thrusts on high-speed local area networks and multigigabit single-mode systems.
© 1985 Optical Society of America
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