Fiber optic television transmittal demonstration

Caption reads: "In this working demonstration model of an optical communications system, a 960- channel color television picture is transmitted via a single glass fiber over several hundred meters, using a gallium arsenide laser source. This type of transmission was conceived in Standard Telecommunication Labortories in 1966.", Credit Line: Photo by John Lawrence, Standard Telecommunication Laboratories, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Physics Today Collection
Abstract/Description: Caption reads: "In this working demonstration model of an optical communications system, a 960- channel color television picture is transmitted via a single glass fiber over several hundred meters, using a gallium arsenide laser source. This type of transmission was conceived in Standard Telecommunication Labortories in 1966."
Subject(s): Fiber optics
Equipment and supplies
Fiber Optics
Date Created: circa 1966
Credit Line: Photo by John Lawrence, Standard Telecommunication Laboratories, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Physics Today Collection
Catalog ID: Fiber Optics F9