City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics
City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics
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332 INDEX<br />
Endoscopes 41–44, 51, 57–67, 70–71, 101,<br />
289n7<br />
first 67<br />
Entrepreneurs 178–180<br />
Epworth, Richard 123, 187<br />
Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers 214, 233–235,<br />
241–245<br />
Eulalie, Princess <strong>of</strong> Spain 31<br />
European Conference on Optical<br />
Communications 177, 182, 232,<br />
321n32<br />
Exhibition, Universal (Paris) 12–13<br />
Exhibitions, Victorian 10, 12–13, 16–20<br />
Expense<br />
Biarritz 222–223<br />
Elie 221<br />
fiber to the home 217, 220–225<br />
Hi-OVIS 220<br />
high-speed experiments 234–235<br />
Eye, human 49<br />
Fabrics, glass 31–33<br />
Faceplates 71–72, 133<br />
Facsimile 35, 39–40<br />
Fairchild, Bernard 293n34<br />
Faraday, Michael 23, 27, 282nn41, 42<br />
Farm, fiber to the 221–222<br />
Faust 16<br />
Federal Communications Commission 196,<br />
217, 218<br />
<strong>Fiber</strong> amplifiers 214, 233–235, 240–245<br />
<strong>Fiber</strong> bundles 133<br />
assembly 58<br />
<strong>Fiber</strong> Communications Inc. 179<br />
<strong>Fiber</strong> glut 251, 253<br />
<strong>Fiber</strong> gyroscopes 237<br />
<strong>Fiber</strong> tapers 73<br />
<strong>Fiber</strong> to the Home Council 255<br />
<strong>Fiber</strong>ed city 218–225<br />
<strong>Fiber</strong>Fest 236<br />
<strong>Fiber</strong>glas 32–33<br />
<strong>Fiber</strong>s<br />
1.55-µm 185–186, 188<br />
4-decibel 145–146<br />
20-decibel 138–141<br />
attenuation 110–116, 160, 183<br />
bare 47<br />
clad 46–59<br />
clad, illustrated 48<br />
double-crucible 65, 125–127, 144<br />
drawing 28–32, 62–67, 125–127, 134–<br />
139<br />
drawing equipment 72, 122<br />
dual-wavelength 193<br />
first low-loss 138–141, 145–146, 303 n41<br />
fragments 142–144<br />
germanium-doped 145–146<br />
glass 28–33, 39–44, 49–50<br />
graded-index 127–128, 167–168, 177–<br />
178, 194, 229<br />
imaging 39–75, 236<br />
lamps 5<br />
liquid core 166<br />
modes 90–91<br />
plastic 52<br />
plastic-clad silica 178<br />
rod-in-tube 63–64, 66–69, 134<br />
second window 183–184<br />
silver-coated 47<br />
single-mode 166–168, 176–178, 187–189,<br />
194–198, 205–208, 228–230<br />
third window 185–186<br />
titanium-doped 138–141<br />
to the farm 221–222<br />
to the home 216–226, 237–238, 255<br />
transmission capacity 7–8, 79–80, 226,<br />
232–238<br />
transparency 110–116<br />
<strong>Fiber</strong>scopes. See image transmission<br />
Field trials<br />
Atlanta 6. 173, 178<br />
Chicago 180–181<br />
Long Beach 181<br />
single-mode 194–195<br />
Field trials, British 182<br />
Field trials, fiber and waveguide 172–175<br />
Field, Cyrus 202<br />
Fingerprint oil 62<br />
Fire polishing 66, 136<br />
Fires 171<br />
First low-loss fiber 138–141, 145–146,<br />
303n41<br />
First room-temperature semiconductor<br />
lasers 153–156<br />
Flame hydrolysis 132–133, 136<br />
Flame polishing 66, 136<br />
Flooding 146<br />
Fog 95<br />
Fonstad, Cliff 134<br />
Fountains, illuminated 10, 13–20, 23, 27,<br />
36<br />
Foxall, Clive 305n65<br />
France Telecom 222–223<br />
French Academy <strong>of</strong> Sciences 14–15, 36<br />
French National Center for<br />
Telecommunications Research 182<br />
French, Bill 171, 183, 206<br />
Frequencies,<br />
carrier 79–80, 92<br />
optical 87<br />
telephone 7–8<br />
Frey, Bart 291n56<br />
Fujikura Cable Works 183<br />
Fujitsu 178, 235<br />
Fulenwider, John 181, 218–219, 229<br />
Fundamental limits 112–113