City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics

摘要: 1. Introduction: Building a City of Light 2. Guiding and Luminous Fountains 3. Fibers Glass 4. The Quest for Remote Viewing: Television the Legacy Sword Swallowers 5. A Critical Insight: Birth Clad Optical Fiber 6. 99 Percent Perspiration: an Industry 7. Vision Futue: Communicating with 8. Laser Stimulates Emission New Ideas 9. "The Only Thing Left is Fibers" 10. Trying to Sell Dream 11. Breakthrough: Clearest in World 12. Recipes Grains Salt: Semiconductor 13. Demonstration Queen 14. Three Generations Five Years 15. Submarine Cables: Ocean Floor Will Be Covered Glass" 16. Last Mile: An Elusive 17. Reflections on Appendix A: Dramatis Personae: Cast Characters B: Fiber-Optic Technology