History Flashcards
When and what was the first military application of fiber optics
Installation on the USS Little Rock in 1973
Who and in what year, proposed that it was flaws in manufacturing process that caused signal loss in glass fibers?
Charles Kao in 1966
Mathematician Snell discovered refraction in?
1621
Who is credited with the discovery of total internal reflection?
John Tyndall
What was one of the first true attempts to carry complex signals with light? Who demonstrated it?
The photophone demonstrated by Alexander Graham Bell.
The first working endoscope was created by Hirschowitz and Curtiss in?
1957
Corning used pure silica to create a fiber that achieved Kao’s target loss of 20 decibels per kilometer in?
1970
What does Snell’s formula state?
That every transparent substance has a particular index of refraction.
