How to Use optical fiber in a Sentence

optical fiber

noun

• Instead, the ball is placed within a few nanometers of an optical fiber, which allows the light to leak across the gap to the ball.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 27 June 2018
• But that is light flowing out of an optical fiber and into a layer of soap.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2022
• These channels are then combined, or multiplexed, in the same optical fiber and sent to each node.
  — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 3 Sep. 2020
• One was the optical fiber; the other consisted of four wires that measured the animal’s brain waves.
  — Amy Barth, Discover Magazine, 24 Sep. 2012
• The laser was finely tuned, the optical fiber was in position and … Eureka!
  — Christina Coleman, Essence.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• When laser power becomes strong enough in optical fibers, the light can interact with phonons.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Dec. 2023
• In this experiment, researchers sent laser light through an optical fiber in a precise way to simulate the edge of a black hole.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 23 Jan. 2019
• Deisseroth implanted an optical fiber in the cortex of a mouse with ChR2 in its motor neurons.
  — Amy Barth, Discover Magazine, 24 Sep. 2012
• The industry was shrinking in the early 2000s, and cheap optical fiber was overabundant.
  — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2019
• The whole show runs on solar power, and the 236 miles of optical fiber that illuminate it will be recycled after the display ends in March.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 18 Sep. 2017
• Enlarge / Light exiting an optical fiber and flowing through a thin film of soapy water.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2022
• The task: to send this photon through an optical fiber while preserving the entanglement.
  — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 19 June 2019
• The researchers connected the chips with an optical fiber and cooled the whole setup close to absolute zero to damp out vibrations.
  — Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS, 25 Apr. 2018
• Over the next three months, Gaeta and his team assembled a jumble of optical fiber resembling a giant bowl of spaghetti, with lasers and time lenses plugged in along the route.
  — Adam Piore, Discover Magazine, 6 May 2012
• Researchers can then activate these cells by shining light on them through optical fibers.
  — Quanta Magazine, 14 Dec. 2017
• In addition, certain products can be produced better in space than on Earth, such as pure optical fiber.
  — Joel Wooten, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2018
• To use the optical fiber analog: after the photon is split to go down two different paths, the left path should be subject to different couplings and path lengths relative to the right path.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 29 Aug. 2018
• The city is an important base for FiberHome and other optical fiber makers as well, that Huawei and networking firms rely on.
  — Fortune, 10 Feb. 2020
• To try to answer that question, a team of German bioengineers surgically installed coiled strips of optical fibers in the ears of deaf gerbils.
  — Justin Chen, STAT, 11 July 2018
• The pulses of infrared light were delivered by an optical fiber that ended 500 micrometres from the embryo.
  — Eliza Strickland, Discover Magazine, 16 Aug. 2010
• Engineers can transmit many messages at once through an optical fiber by tagging each one with a number and sorting things out at the receiving end.
  — Ed Regis, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2010
• Researchers described the optical fiber and a variety of ways it was put through its paces in model mice in a paper in Nature Methods, published 19 October.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2023
• Each node is only connected via a single optical fiber link to the source, making a total of eight links—far less than the 28 that would be required for traditional QKD with no trusted nodes.
  — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 3 Sep. 2020
• These nanopillar metasurfaces could be used to add specific wavelengths of light in an optical fiber, the better to control the amount of information that fiber can carry.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 Sep. 2020
• In one early vacuum test before launch, for example, the system’s optical fibers melted because heat couldn’t be wicked away fast enough.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Dec. 2023
• But using a 3-mile fiber loop on the Stanford campus, the researchers demonstrated that using optical fibers in this way is entirely possible.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 20 Oct. 2017
• The Innsbruck team then injected this photon into a 50-kilometer-long section of optical fiber.
  — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 19 June 2019
• Camille Combes, Agence Ouvreboite These aren’t conventional sensors but rather defects in the glass that arise during the manufacturing of the optical fiber.
  — Dhananjay Khadilkar, Ars Technica, 31 Mar. 2023
• Imagine a waveguide—a cylindrical pathway that confines the motion of a particle (an optical fiber is such a waveguide for photons of light, for example).
  — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 21 Oct. 2021
• Corning is likely to see a pickup in demand for optical fiber as carriers expand their 5G coverage.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024