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‘Making light work’ has been one of the objectives of mankind for many centuries. Even before a clear understanding of the nature of light itself emerged in the work of Newton, Young, Huygens and others, mankind put light to work to create fire, to illuminate the darkness, to understand the seasons, to communicate, or even to try to predict the future. The story of the exploitation of light is indeed a story of the involvement of ‘many hands’ — who knows who the first human was to use a burning glass to light a fire, to manipulate a bright object to deflect the sun’s rays to pass a message, or to use a flame to shine light into the darkness and so extend the working day? Since then many hands have indeed been involved.
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Grattan, K.T.V. (1998). ‘Many hands make light work’ — a perspective on optical fiber from communications to measurement and sensing. In: Grattan, K.T.V., Meggitt, B.T. (eds) Optical Fiber Sensor Technology. Optoelectronics, Imaging and Sensing, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2484-5_1
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