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Created Aug 18, 2008 by
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fiber optics timeline, based on Jeff Hecht' s "A Fiber Optic Chronology" [ available here : http://www.sff.net/people/Jeff.Hecht/Chron.html ]
Fujitsu, NTT Labs, and Bell Labs all report sending one trillion bits per second through single optical fibers in separate experiments using different techniques.
Feb 1996
Linn Mollenauer of Bell Labs sends 10 billion bits through 20,000 kilometers of fibers using a simpler soliton system.
Feb 1993
Masataka Nakazawa of NTT reports sending soliton signals through a million kilometers of fiber.
Feb 1991
TAT-8 begins service, first transatlantic fiber-optic cable, using 1.3-micrometer lasers and single-mode fiber.
Dec 1988
Linn Mollenauer of Bell Labs demonstrates soliton transmission through 4000 kilometers of single-mode fiber.
1988
Dave Payne at University of Southampton develops erbium-doped fiber amplifier operating at 1.55 micrometers.
1987
First fiber-optic cable across the English Channel begins service.
Oct 30, 1986
All 1500 homes connected to Biarritz fiber to the home system.
1986
Single-mode fiber spreads across America to carry long-distance telephone signals at 400 million bits per second and up.
1985
AT&T undergoes first divestiture, splitting off its seven regional operating companies, but keeping long-distance transmission and equipment manufacture.
Jan 1, 1984
MCI leases right of way to install single-mode fiber from New York to Washington. The system will operate at 400 million bits per second at 1.3 micrometers. This starts the shift to single-mode fiber in America.
Dec 1982
British Telecom performs field trial of single-mode fiber, changes plans abandoning graded-index in favor of single-mode.
1982
Canada begins trial of fiber optics to homes in Elie, Manitoba.
Oct 1981
ITT signs consent agreement to pay Corning and license Corning communication fiber patents.
Jul 27, 1981
British Telecom transmits 140 million bits per second through 49 kilometers of single-mode fiber at 1.3 micrometers, starts shifting to single-mode.
1981
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