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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

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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