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fibre optics

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noun

  1. (functioning as singular) the transmission of information modulated on light carried down very thin flexible fibres of glass See also optical fibre

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Dr Ori Henderson-Sapir, project investigator at the UoA's Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, says that Australia has a long history of developing innovative fibre optics technologies.

From Science Daily Nov. 20, 2023

He also says fibre optics might be manufactured more effectively in zero gravity.

From BBC Sep. 25, 2023

TIM's network is Italy's main telecommunications infrastructure and governments have been looking for years to ensure investments are carried out to upgrade it to fast fibre optics from copper.

From Reuters Sep. 25, 2023

By 2000, Binney, using fibre optics, had set up a computer network that could chart relationships among people in real time.

From The New Yorker Apr. 11, 2019

Rather than bouncing around in a plastic space bubble, Coyne, cradling a baby doll, stands atop a futuristic chrome dome smothered in tentacle-like fibre optics.

From The Guardian May 22, 2013

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