The following was published on the lastest issue of Science.
APPLIED OPTICS:
New Ways to Guide Light
J. C. Knight and P. St. J. Russell*
Silica-based optical fibers have been one of the engineering triumphs of the
last few decades. Yet after an initial period of intense development that
revolutionized telecommunications by massively increasing the
information-carrying capability of cables, the rate of innovation in fiber
design slowed to a crawl in the early 1980s as performance approached the
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