As you may already know, fiber optics are kind of important. They are the linch pin that currently holds our massive high data rate internet together. Without fiber optics, we’d all have spent the summer watching Stranger Things at a resolution of about 4 pixels, instead of being able to Read more…
What seems like an age ago (October last year) I finished my PhD and submitted my thesis for examination (a month before my deadline 🙂 ). Then after a shocking 8 months (no idea why it took that long…) I had my viva, which went quite well and I thankfully Read more…
Update: Viva finished and passed. I’ll write up a summary next week! So 6 months after handing in my thesis I am just a day away from my viva/PhD defence. Rather than spend today writing a blog post, I’m off to go furiously read my textbooks while I try to Read more…
I still plan on doing a detailed follow up to my previous post about fiber optics and their history but, in the mean time I have made a nice little infographic with some interesting facts about fiber optics, enjoy! (click on it to make it larger).