第十届国际光纤通信局部地区网络会议1986年10月在美国马萨诸塞州的奥兰多举行。在会上发言的多是在该领域的发展中有突出建树的专家。他们回顾了十年来的工作并展望了未来的十年。为使读者对当今国际高技术竞争热点之一的光纤通信的进展有更多的了解,特约请上海科技大学周幼威副教授将五位发言者的讲稿译出,一并发表。 --编者 The Tenth International Conference on Local Area Networks for Optical Fiber Communications was held in October 1986 in Orlando, Massachusetts. Most of the speeches made during the meeting are those who have made outstanding achievements in the development of this field. They reviewed the work of a decade and looked forward to the next decade. In order to make readers more familiar with the progress of optical fiber communication, one of the hottest international high-tech competitions in the world today, Prof. Zhou Youwei, associate professor of Shanghai University of Science and Technology, translated the speeches of the five speakers for publication. --editor