How to Use fiber-optic in a Sentence

fiber-optic

adjective
  • During the procedure, the child is put under general anesthesia, and a tiny fiber-optic tube with tweezers at the end goes down the airway and picks out the foreign body.
    Evan Forster, Parents, 17 June 2024
  • About 45 miles from the volcano, the eruption cut off a seafloor fiber-optic cable.
    Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The blankets have fiber-optic cables that shine blue light onto the baby's body.
    Tolu Ajiboye, Verywell Health, 12 May 2023
  • Metronet and Hotwire are among the companies using funds from bonds to build more fiber-optic networks.
    Matt Wirz, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2023
  • When light is pulsed down a fiber-optic strand, small imperfections along the cable bounce a fraction of that light back toward the source.
    Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 June 2023
  • Most of the world’s fiber-optic cables, which carry data and messages around the planet, travel through the United States.
    Paul Krugman, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Oh, and the bottom is lined with fiber-optic lights that mimic a constellation come nighttime.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 7 May 2024
  • But a new fiber-optic imaging probe offers hope for improved outcomes.
    IEEE Spectrum, 15 May 2024
  • The entire center is wired together by 17 miles of fiber-optic cable.
    Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2023
  • The winner in our first round is AT&T, specifically, its fiber-optic network.
    Eric Griffith, PCMAG, 17 May 2023
  • Each petal is paired with a fiber-optic light from among the total of 995 luminaries that comprise the heavenly effect.
    Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 6 Mar. 2023
  • During the dot-com bubble, fiber-optic broadband service providers borrowed billions to finance the rapid build-out of their networks.
    Peter Cohan, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • These properties of glass are why people use it to make everything from smartphone screens and fiber-optic cables to vials that hold vaccines.
    John Mauro, Fortune, 14 June 2023
  • The data travels along the laser signal rather than radio waves, similar to how fiber-optic high-speed internet works, Wright said.
    Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The lower deck area is lined with Aphrodite statues, faux pillars, water fountains, a blue-tiled 28-foot pool, and a glittering fiber-optic ceiling.
    Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The bridge collapse also took out a fiber-optic cable providing internet service to many customers in the state, the high-speed provider Global Net said.
    Time, 25 June 2023
  • In recent probes of other sectors such as e-bikes and fiber-optic cables, the EU discovered subsidy margins ranging from 4% to 17%.
    Jorge Valero, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Jousset and his colleagues installed a fiber-optic cable near Etna’s summit to track the volcanic rumbles.
    Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 June 2023
  • Rolls-Royce also went the extra mile with the starlight headliner, stitching 2117 fiber-optic lights into the ceiling, the most Rolls-Royce has ever fitted to one headliner.
    Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 21 Mar. 2023
  • One photon is then sent down a 25-kilometer-long fiber-optic spool to one node, while the other photon is guided through another spool to a different node.
    IEEE Spectrum, 13 June 2023
  • The mother of a San Antonio man who died last summer laying fiber-optic cables on a 101-degree day is suing his employer.
    Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2023
  • There’s also a brand-new water well and fiber-optic internet that uses less energy than broadband.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Hundreds of kilometers of fiber-optic cable have already been laid to repair that destruction.
    Justin Ling, WIRED, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Rockman paints a 19th-century telegraph cable and a contemporary fiber-optic cable snaking across the ocean floor.
    Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Laser signals transmitted over fiber-optic cables or through the air can help link optical clocks together.
    IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2023
  • Golden stars punctuate blue columns and a domed ceiling to create the illusion of looking up at the sky, an effect enhanced by discreet fiber-optic lights—both inside and out.
    Stephanie Sporn, Vogue, 15 June 2023
  • Advertisement Crews were replacing the original 40-year-old steel rail along the closed stretch in Virginia, while also installing fiber-optic cable.
    Heidi Pérez-Moreno, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
  • The area had no fiber-optic connection to Ghana’s telecommunications network.
    Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Using fiber-optic sensors, the robot can detect when its material has been punctured.
    Nora Bradford, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2023
  • According to report by News 5 Cleveland, the 50-unit building features two, three and four-bedroom apartments with fiber-optic Wi-Fi, community and fitness rooms.
    Jasmine Browley, Essence, 14 June 2023

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