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60 years of fiber optics: How a carrier of light you can’t see underlies much of the modern world

  • Written by John Ballato, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University
60 years of fiber optics: How a carrier of light you can’t see underlies much of the modern worldFiber optics, illustrated here, underpin much of modern communications. Yuichiro Chino/Moment via Getty Images

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