Technical Seminar : Missing a Micrometer, Losing a Thousand Kilometers – An Introduction to Optical Fiber Technology

(差之毫厘，斷送千里: 光纖技術漫談)

Jointly organized with ITD, END, AMC & CAD

Date, time & venue
19 March 2010 (Fri), 18:30-19:30, HKIE

Programme highlights

Professor Charles Kao wins the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for his “groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication.”  What exactly are Prof. Kao’s groundbreaking achievements? What is the principle of light transmission in an optical fiber? What factors determine the signal-carrying capacity of an optical fiber? How is it possible that an optical fiber link can transmit millions of telephone channels over a distance of thousands of kilometers? In what way is optical fiber communication changing our way of living? What are the recent developments in optical fibers? The speaker will provide answers to these questions in simple language.

Speaker

Professor Kin-Seng Chiang received the PhD. degree in electrical engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia, in 1986. He joined the Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, in 1993, where he is a Chair Professor. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America.