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Charles K. Kao was a Hong Kong-British-American physicist who made groundbreaking discoveries in fiber optics that transformed telecommunications. His work enabled the development of optical fibers for transmitting information over long distances, which became the foundation for modern high-speed internet and global communication networks.
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- 1933
- Died
- 2018-09-23
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- 11
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- Gao Kun zi zhuan
- Infrared fibers (0.8-12 [Greek letter mu] m), February 12-13, 1981, Los Angeles, California
- Infrared fibers (0.8-12 [Greek letter mu] m), February 12-13, 1981, Los Angeles, California
- Optical fiber technology, II
- Chao ping an kuo
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Sir Charles Kuen Kao (November 4, 1933 – September 23, 2018) was a Hong Kong electrical engineer who contributed to the development and use of fibre optics in telecommunications. In the 1960s, Kao created various methods to combine glass fibres with lasers in order to transmit digital data, which laid the groundwork for the evolution of the Internet and the eventual creation of the World Wide Web.
Born in 1933 in Shanghai, Kao and his family settled in Hong Kong in 1949. He graduated from St. Joseph's College in Hong Kong in 1952 and went to London to study electrical engineering. In the 1960s, he worked at Standard Telecommunication Laboratories, the research center of Standard Telephones and Cables (STC) in Harlow, and it was here in 1966 that he laid the groundwork for fibre optics in communication. Known as the "godfather of broadband," the "father of fibre optics," and the "father of fibre optic communications," he continued his work in Hong Kong at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and in the United States at ITT (the parent corporation of STC) and Yale University.
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