Optical Fiber-Past, Present and Future: A Review

Md. Harunor Rashid  Khan; Lovely  Yesmin

doi:10.53808/KUS.2001.3.1.0112-se

Authors

Md. Harunor Rashid Khan Forestry and Wood Technology Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna-9208, Bangladesh
Lovely Yesmin Forestry and Wood Technology Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna-9208, Bangladesh

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53808/KUS.2001.3.1.0112-se

Keywords:

Optical fiber , Optical Communication, Optical Amplifier, Erbium Fiber, Photonic Bandgap

Abstract

During the second half of the twentieth century there were several technological revolutions around the world, one of the most important being the supplanting of telecommunication over copper wires by optical transmission over glass fibers. Advances in optical fiber technology have been spectacular in the past 30 years but still there is more to come. Photonic fiber structures will create a radically new era of fiber optic communication. In this paper the rapid growth of optical fiber technology is reviewed and its possible new directions in communication are discussed.

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