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Putting Fiber to the Test: The Early Days of Lightwave Systems
In the mid-1970s, Jacobs’ team performed a number of system experiments that would lead to the first commercial applications of fiber optics, including the historic transmission of the 1980 Olympic competitions in Lake Placid, New York.
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