The Man Who Bent Light: Father of Fibre Optics
Fiber optics, the science of transmitting data, voice, and images by the passage of light through thin, transparent fibers. In telecommunications, fiber optic technology has virtually replaced copper wire in long distance telephone lines, and it is used to link computers within local area networks. Fiber optics is also the basis of the fiberscopes used in examining internal parts of the body (endoscopy) or inspecting the interiors of manufactured structural products. He marked the birth of fiber optics, the now-ubiquitous communications technology that carries phone calls, television shows and billions of cat memes around the world every day. Optical fibres has revolutionarised the transmission of light, signals, and is responsible for all the miracles of technology in the present world. The one who made this possible, considered the ‘Father of Fibre Optics’, Narinder Singh Kapany -> this Punjab-born scientist’s glorifying discovery of communication th...