HISTORY OF FIBER OPTICS
The Discovery Channel is currently running a program about Japan’s Fiber Optic Telecom system and they’re falsely insinuating Fiber Optics is brand new technology and that Japan is at least 25 years ahead of Western Europe and the United States. By the end of this story (The History of Fiber Optics) it should be clear to the most impaired among us that America and Western Europe developed Fiber Optic technology thirty years ago and it’s far from new technology! According to M. J. N. Sibley’s book: “Optical Communications,” the use of light as a means of communication is not a new idea; many civilizations used sunlight reflected off mirrors to send messages, and communication between warships at sea was achieved using Aldis lamps. Unfortunately, although these primitive systems operated at the speed of light they had very low “data-rates” and failed to exploit the very large bandwidth of optical communication links. In 1970, workers at the Corning glass works, USA, produced a glass pure enough to allow fiber optic communications and a study of the spectral response made low-loss transmission possible.
This was not good news for the copper wire industry! Furthermore, copper co-axial cables must have an outside power source about every two thousand yards to amplify its signal, while fiber optic cables needs “no” such outside power source to amplify its signal. At the receiver end of the glass strands, a photo-detector converts the optical signal back into an electrical one. And, instead of sending a single stream of electrons through a copper wire it became possible to send perhaps a thousand different wavelengths of photons streaming through a single glass strand. The work on long-haul (intercontinental) routes aided the development of short-haul industrial, commercial and residential links. From an industrial viewpoint, besides its broadband capabilities another major advantage of fiber optic cables is that they are immune to electromagnetic interference. Although large American corporations and universities were allowed to use fiber optic technology, it was kept from American households because a few large corporations bought off both sides of the isle in congress and passed prohibitive legislation under the guise of national security. Special interests falsely claimed if American homes were allowed to be connected to fiber optic cables, pornographers and terrorists would take over our country, even though pornographers and terrorists never took over Sweden, Hong Kong, Malaysia or any other country that was allowed to connect to a global fiber optic system. Instead, American homes and small businesses were forced to use slow, DSL copper service lines that were at least one hundred times slower than fiber optics. The number of American man hours wasted during this time period is beyond calculation, but the real rub is that American small businesses and consumers were, and still are, at a tremendous disadvantage to their counter parts in other countries. These gags and restrictions are finally giving way and soon any American consumer or small business with a computer connected to a global fiber optic system will be able to transmit any amount of information, any picture, any experience, any opportunity to anyone or everyone, anywhere, at any time, instantaneously, without barriers of convenience or excessive cost, and this resulting transformation will cause a total transfiguration of our American way of life.
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