• DocumentCode
    2845933
  • Title

    Title: Making the first low loss optical fibers for communications

  • Author

    Schultz, Peter C.

  • Author_Institution
    Peter Schultz Consulting LLC
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    19-23 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    9
  • Abstract
    Forty years ago, the Corning research team of Keck, Maurer and Schultz made the first optical fibers having a loss of 20dB/km. The research effort leading to this breakthrough is described including subsequent work resulting in <;1 dB/km fibers.
  • Keywords
    optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical fibre fabrication; optical fibre losses; optical fiber loss; optical fibre communication; Fires; Furnaces; Glass; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber losses; Silicon compounds;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Torino
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8536-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8534-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621313
  • Filename
    5621313
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2845933