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Chappe Brothers invented the optical telgraph. It used a series of lights to deliver messages.
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Jacques Babinet and Daniel Colldon discovered that light could be directed at jets of water to create wonderous displays.
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Alexander Graham Bell deigned an optical telephone system. It functioned similar to a telephone. However, telephones are more realistic and naturally became more popular.
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Willian Wheeler invented a system to light a home with one electric lamp. This system used many pipes covered in reflective material.
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Albert Einstein develops stimulated emission theory. it states that a high enegy atom when "stimulated" by a photon of a certain wavelength another photon will be made.
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John baird patented his idea of using transparent light arrays to transmit images for T.V.
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Heinrich Lamm was the first to transmit a light bulb filament image.
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Charles Townes and James Gordon along with Herbert Zeiger developed a maser at Columbia University. Maser stands for microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.
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Townes published a paper that showed the concerpt of a laser along with physicist Arthur Schawlow.
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The first operating helium-neon gas was invented by Bell Laboratories and Ali Javan.
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Charles Campbell used a ruby laser for medical use.
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Optical fibers made by Corning Glass Works meet purity standards set by Kao and Hockham. It is some of the purest glass ever made.
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Engineers developed the first commercial semiconductor laser at Laser Diode Labs. It allowed for the continuous-wave operation for telephone conversation trasmission.
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Telephone companies tart to use fiber-optic cables that carry live telephone information.
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AT&T said that they would install a massive fiber-optic cable that would link major cities from New York to D.C.
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A fiber cable that used used optical amplifiers was laided across the Pacific Ocean capable of handling over 300k telephone calls at the same time.
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Optical amplifiers are built into the fiber cable itself by Emmanuel Desurvire and David Payne along with P.J. Mears.
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A fiber optic cable around the world becomes the longest single cable network. It now has a variety of operation centers. This cable provides a nice structure for next-gen interent applications.
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APA citations History of Fiber Optics. (n.d.). Retrieved September 15, 2014, from http://www.timbercon.com/history-of-fiber-optics/ Lasers and Fiber Optics Timeline - Greatest Engineering Achievements of the Twentieth Century. (n.d.). Retrieved September 15, 2014, from http://greatachievements.org/?id=3706
