Fiber Optics Standard Dictionary

The first edition of this dictionary was written during the years preceding 1980. No fiber optics glossary had been published by any recognized standards body. No other dictionaries in fiber optics had been published. A significant list of fiber optics terms and definitions, NBS Handbook 140, Optical Waveguide Communications Glossary, was issued in 1982 by the National Bureau of Standards, now the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Since then several publications by standards b...