How to Use fiber-optic in a Sentence

fiber-optic

adjective

• 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
• Buildings are connected to the outside world by fiber-optic cables that crisscross the country and the globe.
  — Lindsay Muscato, Journal Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2024
• Meta’s cable plan Meta wants to wrap the entire world in a new fiber-optic subsea cable, TechCrunch reports.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In November, two fiber-optic Baltic Sea cables were severed.
  — Rebecca Rosman, NPR, 31 Dec. 2024
• 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
• There is some debate about how effective the current fiber-optic drones really are, Bendett added.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 12 Jan. 2025
• 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
• With fiber-optic drones, these feeds are transmitted to the operator over the cable, leaving no detectable signal.
  — Vikram Mittal, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
• 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
• The case echoed a similar episode last year, when a Chinese container ship, also dragging its anchor over the Baltic Sea bed, severed a Russian fiber-optic cable.
  — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Dec. 2024
• 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
• The Commerce Department came up with standards and rules for states and territories applying for the funds — including the preference for fiber-optic broadband, which provides the fastest internet service speeds.
  — Cecilia Kang, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2025
• Taara was borne from a vision to provide internet access to underserved remote communities without the need to route cumbersome fiber-optic connections through to them.
  — New Atlas, 3 Mar. 2025