Narinder Singh Kapany

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Narinder Singh Kapany (born October 12, 1926 in Moga , Punjab , India) is a physicist who is known as the inventor of the optical fiber .

He grew up in Dehra Dun and graduated from Agra University . At first he was the head of an Indian arms factory in Rajpur on behalf of the British . In 1952 he moved to London, where he studied optics at the Imperial College of Science and Technology , London and obtained his Ph. D. in 1955 . He made important research contributions in the fields of interference microscopy , the acquisition of optical values, photo electronics and light guide research.

He taught at the University of Rochester in New York State and later at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago . In 1960 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .

He has lived in Silicon Valley since 1960 and founded Optics Technology Inc. , which went public in 1967. In 1973 he founded Kaptron Inc. , of which he was President and CEO until he sold it to AMP in 1990.

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