Fibre optic creator wins Nobel Prize

The man that helped create the fibre optic cable, which is well known these days for providing super fast broadband services, has been awarded part of the Nobel Prize for Physics this year.

Charles Kao of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Standard Telecommunication Laboratories of London, has been award half of the Nobel Prize award for “groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibres for optical communication”.

Amazingly this technology was being worked on in 1966 and in this pioneering work he managed to calculate how data could be transmitted over fibre optic cable.

This was the work that laid down the foundations for super fast broadband.

The problem was that broadband needed to catch up with the fibre optic technology.