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
  • In addition to the proof-of-concept tiny wine glass and optical resonator, the authors printed a tiny version of the KTH logo, a cantilever, and a conical spiral, as well as a silica glass optical fiber tip.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 July 2023

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