City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics

Furnaces 32
high-temperature 134–135, 137
Furukawa Cable 137
Fused silica 124–125, 131–146
Future, predictions 220–221, 226, 230–231
Futuristic communities 218–221, 225
Gainsborough, Hugh 288 n64
Gallium arsenide 149–151, 158
lasers 168, 178
Gallium nitride 184
Galloway, W. and J., and Sons 17
Galt, John K. 152
Gambling, William Alec 120, 183
Gardner, Bill 71
Garroway, Dave 73
Gas lenses 98–100, 129–130, 231
Gastroscopes 41–44, 51, 57–67, 70–71, 101
first 67
Geneen, Harold 129, 162
General Cable Corp. 181, 192
General Electric 37, 39
Research Laboratory 149–150
Generations, fiber technology
first 177–178
second 193–194
third 186, 197–198
Geneva 12–13
Gerlach, Walther 42, 285n38
Germanium doping 145–146, 169–170
Gernsback, Hugo 284n14
Gilder, George 250, 255
Glasgow exhibition (1888) 17
Glass 15, 24–26, 28–33, 133
chemistry 145
clad fibers 63–66, 68–69
deposition 136–137
fabric 31–33
flow 303n44
lasers 102, 133
multicomponent 125–127
purity 5, 113, 124–127, 131–133
rods 15, 21, 36, 40
spun 29, 30
transparency 15, 100, 110–115, 123–124
Global Crossing 248, 254
Global telecommunications 201–202, 227–
238
Gloge, Detlef 97–98, 160, 165, 168
Godbey, Jim 178, 190
Gophers 229, 322n9
Goubau, Georg 96
Goudsmit, Samuel 295n8
Graded-index fibers 127–128, 167–168, 177–
178, 194, 229
Grande Encyclopedie, Le 18
Great Society program 218
GTE 6, 180, 192, 218–219, 224–225
Gutta percha 203
Gyroscopes, fiber-optic 237
INDEX 333
Hall, Bob 149–150
Hammesfahr, Herman 31
Hansell, Clarence W. 39–41, 44–45, 82–83,
102, 236, 285n36
Hartley, R. V. L. 88
Hartman, Robert 157
Hasegawa, Akira 232
Hayashi, Izuo 152–157, 231
Heat treatment 138, 144
Hero experiments 232–233, 235, 243–245,
248–249, 252, 255
Heterojunctions 151–152
Hi-OVIS 219–221
Hicks, Will 64–65, 68–72, 90, 101, 188–
189, 196, 200, 214, 226, 250, 251,
295n5
Hierarchy, telephone 8
Hirschowitz, Basil 60, 66–67, 70–71
Hitler, Adolf 44
Hockham, George 106–115
Holes, in semiconductor 148–149
Holmdel Lab 100, 207. See also Bell Labs
Holonyak, Nick, Jr. 150, 156
Home fiber links 216–226
Hopkins, Robert 61, 292 n66
Hopkins, Harold H. 10, 53, 56–60, 62, 70,
282n43
Horiguchi, Masaharu 183–186
House Un-American Activities Committee 90
Hsieh, J. Jim 184–186, 191–192, 200
Hudson, Marshall 169, 189–190, 199
Hughes Research Laboratories 92, 93
Hurricane Agnes 146
Hutson, Andy 296n35
Hyde, Frank 132–133
Hyde, Lewis 90, 288n56
Hydrogen losses 208–209
Hydrolysis, flame 132–133, 136
IBM 74, 150, 152, 153
Illumination
dental 21, 45
medical 21
theater 16
Image combiners and splitters 73
Image intensifiers 71–72
Image scramblers 40–41, 47, 54, 61, 64–65,
68–69
Image transmission 34–64, 66–67, 236
first demonstration 42–43
Imperial College of Science and
Technology 57, 58
Impurities 113, 124, 132–133, 143
semiconductor 148–149
Independent Television 162