City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics

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