This Thursday, Google pays tribute to Charles K. Kaon on its homepage doodle.
Died in September 2018, the American-British physicist would have today celebrated his 88 years.
Man is considered to be the father of optical fiber, the technology that allows us today to use high-speed Internet, reports RTL
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Charles K. Kaon was born on November 4, 1933 in Shanghai, China.
After a remarkable education, he went to study electrical engineering in England and worked at the same time as an engineer in a company.
It is, moreover, in this company that his colleagues invented the laser in 1960.
He received the Nobel Prize in physics in 2009
After obtaining his doctorate, Charles Kuen Kao published in 1966 a revolutionary article with his colleague George Hockham.
In it, they propose that fibers, made from purified glass, can carry a gigahertz of information over long distances via lasers.
Charles Kuen Kao then oversaw the development of this technology.
And in 1977, optical fibers made it possible to carry the signals of the first telephone network.
In the 1980s, the physicist then took care of setting up fiber optic networks all over the world.
Charles Kuen Kao was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2009. A distinction honoring "his remarkable achievements in the transmission of light in optical fibers for communication".
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