Lightwave Applications in Communications - An Overview
01 January 1988
In the early nineteen seventies, Corning Glass Works demonstrated the first optical fiber with low enough transmission losses to threaten other high capacity transmission media, such as the then popular circular, millimeter waveguides. Ever since, lightwave has made steady, sometimes dramatic, in roads, competing successfully with microwave relay and coaxial transmission cable in the long haul business as well as the data transmission in Local Area Networks (LANs) and subscriber loops. Applications in these areas will be discussed.