Progress Toward Practical Military Fiber Optic Communication Systems

L. Dworkin; Don N. Williams; K. Trumble

doi:10.1117/12.955791

20 October 1977 Progress Toward Practical Military Fiber Optic Communication Systems

L. Dworkin, Don N. Williams, K. Trumble

Proceedings Volume 0122, Advances in Laser Engineering I; (1977) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.955791
Event: 21st Annual Technical Symposium, 1977, San Diego, United States

Abstract

Although the capability of dielectric fibre to guide optical energy has been known for centuries, it has been only since about 1970 that this capability has begun to be exploited for long distance transmission of information. Before that time, the absorption of materials used to fabricate fibres was too high to consider the long distance application. In 1972 sufficient purity of optically transparent materials was obtained so that the transmission losses of laboratory fibres were lowered to 4 dB/km. Because of these advances and the ability of fibres to transmit extremely high data rates, industries (and the military) throughout the world are heavily investing in the vast potential of this "new" technology.

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L. Dworkin, Don N. Williams, and K. Trumble "Progress Toward Practical Military Fiber Optic Communication Systems", Proc. SPIE 0122, Advances in Laser Engineering I, (20 October 1977); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.955791

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