The Wikipedia article on optical fiber, consulted for the 1965 Kao and Hockham loss proposal and the 1970 Corning Glass Works demonstration of fiber below twenty decibels of loss per kilometer.
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PublisherWikimedia Foundation
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_fiber
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