Father of fiber optics, Charles K. Kao's 88th Birthday

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Charles Kuen Kao aka Charles K. Kao, Chinese-born, British-American physicist and educator, is considered as the father of fiber optics.

His innovations revolutionized global communication, and laid the groundwork for today’s high-speed internet. 

Charles Kuen Kao, was born on 4 November, 1933, in Shanghai, China. He went on to study electrical engineering in England, and worked as an engineer, at Standard Telephones and Cables Ltd., where his colleagues invented the laser in 1960.  

Shortly after earning his doctorate, Kao and his collaborator, George Hockham, published a groundbreaking paper in 1966, that proposed, fibers fabricated with purified glass, could carry a gigahertz (1 billion hertz) of information, over long distances, using lasers. 

Kao led the development of this revolutionary technology, and in 1977, the first telephone network, carried live signals through optical fibers. 

By the 1980s, Kao, was overseeing the implementation of fiber-optic networks worldwide.  

Beginning in 1987, he spent nearly a decade, as Vice-Chancellor of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and founded Hong Kong’s Independent Schools Foundation. 

Kao’s landmark research in the 1960s, earned him a joint Nobel Prize in Physics, in 2009, and cleared the path for the over 900 million miles of fiber-optic cables, that carry massive quantities of data across the globe today. 

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