City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics

336 INDEX
Møller Hansen, Holger 50–51, 57, 286n21
Monopoly, AT&T telephone 140, 164–165
Morse code 79
Mosaic Fabrications 72–73, 101
Mosher, R. E. 310n70
Mother’s Oats 62
Motion pictures 38
projectors 284n12
wide-screen 54–55, 72
Mountbatten, Lord Louis 162
Multicomponent glasses 125–127, 144
Multifibers 68–69, 71
Multimode fibers see graded-index fibers
Multimode transmission 104–108
Multiplexing 83
wavelength-division 188–189, 196, 234–
236
Munich, University of 41–42
Murray Hill Lab 98, 126, 152, 154, 166,
207. See also Bell Labs
Nakazawa, Masataka 233
Narrow-stripe lasers 154–155
NASA 74, 95
NASDAQ index 249–251
National Research Council 72
National Science Foundation 218
Nature 55–58, 60, 93
Nature, La 17
Naval Research Laboratory 172
Nelson, Herb 152
Networks
all-optical 189
global 3–4, 201–202, 227–238
junction 118
telephone 3–8, 77–80, 110–111, 118, 228–
230
trunk 118
New England Fiberoptics Council 236
New Scientist 3–4, 161, 303n41
New towns projects 218–219
New York Times 156, 164
Newman, David 147
Newns, George 119, 122, 126, 143
Nill, Ken 191–192, 200
Nippon Electric Co. 156, 252
Nippon Sheet Glass 128
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone. See NTT
Nishizawa, Jun-ichi 121
Nobel Prize 159, 239
Noise, modal 187
Northeast Corridor System 195–196, 200
Northern Telecom 198, 229, 253, 254
Norton, Frederick H. 68–69, 290n32
Nostalgia 227–228
NTT 121, 183–186, 188, 195, 208, 210–
211, 231–233, 235, 237, 248, 249
fiber to the home 221, 225–226
Nuclear effects 120
O’Brien, Brian 46–50, 53–56, 59, 64–65,
70, 72–73, 90
O’Brien, Ethel 55
O’Hara, Sidney 194, 305 n65
Oatmeal cartons 62
Ogilvie, Graeme 309 n38
Oklahoma! 55
Olshansky, Robert 170, 225
Olympics 192–193, 237
Omni 6, 222
Operators, telephone 77–78
Optical amplifiers 128, 189, 213–214, 233–
235, 240–245
Optical communications, early 81, 87–91, 93–
102
Optical Corporation of America 236
Optical Fiber Communications Conference
197, 228, 232, 233, 235, 248–254
Optical frequencies 87–89
Optical Society of America 46, 49, 64, 72,
230
Optical switching 188–189, 226, 228
Optical telegraph 80–81
Optical telephone 81–82
Optical waveguide 96–100
Optics research 46, 52
Optics Technology 102, 120, 297n58
Orthoscopic surgery 237
Osanai, Hiroshi 183–185
Oscillators 92
Outside vapor deposition process 170
Owens-Corning Fiberglas 32
Owens-Illinois Glass Company 32
Ozone, measurements 53
Panish, Mort 152–157, 231
Paranormal research 85, 293n23
Paris 10, 12–13
Paris exhibition (1889) 10, 17–20
Paris Opera 16
Party-line phones 221–222
Passive optical networks 225, 237
Patents
Baird 37, 59
Corning 139–140, 198–199
cross-licensing 169
Curtiss 67, 73, 269n14
Hansell 39–41, 44, 51, 73, 285n36,
289n76
Hicks 70, 72, 236
Hirschowitz 67
Hopkins 59
Kapany 70
Møller Hansen 51
O’Brien 54, 59, 73