Abstract
The development of metrology to support the optical fiber communications
industry is an excellent case study of how stakeholders—fiber manufacturers,
their customers, standards-developing organizations, and (in the U.S.) the
Federal Government—worked together to develop product specification
standards that facilitated the growth of an industry. This paper reviews some
of that history, primarily from the perspective of the National Institute
of Standards and Technology, which worked with the industry to provide independent
research and neutral coordination of many industry studies and measurement
comparisons.
© 2008 IEEE
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