City of Light - The Story of Fiber Optics

Zusatztext Jeff Hecht...is thus thoroughly well qualified to write this 'popular' technological history; and a thoroughly good job he has made of it...the book can be recommended unreservedly as an accessible history of optical fibres. Informationen zum Autor Jeff Hecht is a Correspondent with New Scientist magazine. Klappentext This readable account is likely to become the definitive history of fiber optics. Starting from early Victorian times! when fiber optics was viewed simply as a parlor trick! Jeff Hecht gives us the full story! including the characters! discoveries! and fortuitous accidents that made the technology possible. Fiber optics is now the backbone of a multi-billion dollar global communications network which includes the internet! telecommunications! and cable TV! plus laser! military! and medical uses! and this fascinating survey covers the full range of its applications. The book concludes with a realistic took into future possibilities. Zusammenfassung This book presents the history of the development of fibre optic technology, explaining the scientific challenges that needed to be overcome, the range of applications and future potential for this fundamental communications technology. The author has followed and reported the development closely for the past 20 years, and is better placed than anyone to write the definitive history of the field.

Product details

• Authors: Jeff Hecht, Hecht Jeff
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.1999
• EAN: 9780195108187
• ISBN: 978-0-19-510818-7
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Sloan Technology; Sloan Technology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; popular science, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Optics, SCIENCE / Physics / Optics & Light, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Telecommunications, Optical physics, Applied optics, Communications engineering / telecommunications