Subscribe by reader
Subscribe by email
Fiber Optics has only widely been implemented over the last 20 years, although the technology, ideas and concepts have been around for much longer. Optical communication systems starting with Claude Chappe’s invention of the “optical telegraph” in the 1790’s has been in use for more than 200 years. Or more recently, in 1930 a German medical student named Heinrich Lamm - was the first person to assemble a bundle of optical fibers to carry a recognizable image. Lamm’s invention was developed to look inside inaccessible parts of the human body. Although, this discovery was not entirely as successful as he had hoped it would be, Lamm’s theory of transmitting an image through a “flexible multi-fiber conductor of radiant energy” was still in fact, a great success. continue »
Keywords: bundle, cable, communication, Fiber, fiber optic, fiber optic cable, fiber optics, infrastructure, Networks, optical telegraph, Systems, time line, Transmit
