Optical amplifiers - a telecommunications revolution
Optical amplifiers - a telecommunications revolution
In the early 1960s it was widely recognised by telecommunications engineers that existing electrical transmission technologies (twisted-pair, coaxial cables) would be inadequate for the rapidly-developing telecommunications industry. The needs of wideband distribution networks to carry video and digital data, as well as the burgeoning telephone traffic, could not be met by foreseeable advances in electrical transmission. Consequently research focussed on the huge bandwidth offered by optical transmission, initially in free space but later in guided-wave form, to provide the wideband services of the future. In 1966 Dr Charles K Kao (a previous C&C Award Winner) demonstrated the feasibility of using glass optical fibres as a transmission conduit - the optical equivalent of the coaxial cable.
Payne, D.N.
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Gambling, W.A.
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Payne, D.N.
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Gambling, W.A.
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Payne, D.N. and Gambling, W.A.
(1993)
Optical amplifiers - a telecommunications revolution.
Commemorative Address, C & C Awards, Tokyo, Japan.
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In the early 1960s it was widely recognised by telecommunications engineers that existing electrical transmission technologies (twisted-pair, coaxial cables) would be inadequate for the rapidly-developing telecommunications industry. The needs of wideband distribution networks to carry video and digital data, as well as the burgeoning telephone traffic, could not be met by foreseeable advances in electrical transmission. Consequently research focussed on the huge bandwidth offered by optical transmission, initially in free space but later in guided-wave form, to provide the wideband services of the future. In 1966 Dr Charles K Kao (a previous C&C Award Winner) demonstrated the feasibility of using glass optical fibres as a transmission conduit - the optical equivalent of the coaxial cable.
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Commemorative Address, C & C Awards, Tokyo, Japan, 1993-10-01
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