fibre optics
Britishnoun
Other Word Forms
- fibreoptic adjective
Example Sentences
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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
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
His first job was at consumer electronics conglomerate Philips in a lab working on fibre optics, but Drahi soon set out to be an entrepreneur in the nascent cable sector.
From Reuters • Apr. 7, 2014
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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