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Left: The soot rod fed into the consolidation furnace for sintering. Right: Glass preform fed into the fiber drawing furnace. (Courtesy of Corning.)

Lord Ravleigh (John William Strutt) was an English physicist (1877 - 1919) and a Nobel Laureate (1904) who made a number of contributions to wave physics of sound and optics. (Courtesy of AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. Physics Today Collection

Reeled optical fibers on a drum. (Courtesy of Corning.)

Professor Charles Kao who has been recognized as the inventor of fiber optics is receiving an IEE prize from Professor John Midwinter (1998 at IEE Savoy Place, London, UK; courtesy of IEE)

William Lawrence Bragg (1890-1971), Australian born British physicist, won the Nobel prize with his father William Henry Bragg for his "famous equation" when he was only 25 years old (Courtesy of Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, AIP, Weber Collection)

Beam splitter cubes (Courtesy of Melles Griot)

Charles Fabry (1867-1945), left, and Alfred Perot (1863-1925),right, were the first French physicists to construct an optical cavity for interferometry (Fabry: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, E. Scott Barr Collection; Perot: The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 64, November 1926, p.208.)

Augustin Jean Fresnel (1788 - 1827) was a French physicist, and a civil engineer for the French government, who was one of the principal proponents of the wave theory of light. He made a number of distinct contributions to optics including the well-known Fresnel lens that was used in light houses in the 19th century. He fell out with Napoleon in 1815 and was subsequently put into house-arrest until the end of Napoleon's reign. During his enforced leisure time he formulated his wave ideas of light into a mathematical theory. (Photo: Smithsonian Institution, courtesy of AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives.)