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
  • Hundreds of kilometers of fiber-optic cable have already been laid to repair that destruction.
    Justin Ling, WIRED, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Some say China could use the embassy, with its proximity to strategic fiber-optic cables that snake under the financial district, to spy on dissidents and ordinary Britons.
    Mark Landler, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025

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