fibre optics
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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
Germanium is mainly used in fibre optics and plastics as well as infrared radiation.
From Reuters • Jul. 4, 2023
I met two twenty-nine-year-olds from Normandy, who worked in fibre optics and hadn’t been to Paris in fifteen years.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 13, 2018
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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