How to Use waveguide in a Sentence

waveguide

noun

• The thin wall acts as a waveguide for the sound wave and slows its speed compared to an unconfined sound wave.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 2 Mar. 2022
• As the voltage varied, the speed at which the light teaveled through the waveguide was altered, splitting the light into its constituent frequencies and knocking these out of step.
  — Zeeya Merali, Scientific American, 5 June 2013
• This waveguide enables sound waves to coast across entire ocean basins, says Bruce Cornuelle, a Scripps oceanographer who worked with Munk.
  — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 17 Sep. 2020
• One example of such a component is a more efficient waveguide, which is used to route photons inside the chip.
  — Sara Castellanos, WSJ, 27 July 2021
• And the waveguides that Sallie was working on were called hyper-frequency waveguides.
  — Erica Huang, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
• At least in the case of the chain cat shark, the dark denticles serve as optical waveguides, channeling the fluorescence signal along their body length.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2019
• Each lens, known as a diffractive waveguide, is etched with tiny grooves that redirect light across the surface before being steered into a wearer’s eye.
  — Fortune, 26 Sep. 2020
• The first stage provides a simple on–off movement of the coupler waveguide, thereby engaging or disengaging the coupler to the bus.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Jan. 2023
• To do that, Pan and colleagues used another laser pulse and a device called a waveguide to stretch the photons’ wavelength 60% to the sweet spot for transmission down a standard optical fiber.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 13 Feb. 2020
• Light enters the waveguide through a small aperture in the microprojector, which is hidden in the temple of the eyeglasses, and leaves the waveguide through a larger aperture at the other end.
  — Ari Grobman, Forbes, 19 July 2022
• The HomePod mini also features an acoustic waveguide, just like the full-size HomePod, which helps to direct the flow of sound toward the bottom of the device and outward to create 360-degree sound.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 13 Oct. 2020
• Vuzix’s setup uses a more-or-less traditional microdisplay, then mates that up to a flat piece of glass called an optical waveguide.
  — Noah Shachtman, WIRED, 11 Apr. 2011
• The novel waveguide for the neodymium tweeter extends response to beyond 25 kHz but importantly replicates a deep, wide soundstage.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 20 Mar. 2024
• For example, the on-chip photon detectors that are built into waveguides need to be able to count individual photons.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 30 Apr. 2024
• 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
• This device consists of a microwave power supply, an air compressor, a compressed microwave waveguide, and a flame igniter.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
• Rather than taking over the wearer’s vision like a VR headset, interface elements are projected onto a waveguide that appears in the corner of your vision.
  — Andrew Williams, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
• The glasses have a MicroLED display with full-lens holographic waveguide technology.
  — Steven Winkelman, PCMAG, 4 Jan. 2022
• The water in our food reacts to the electromagnetic waves distributed through the waveguide, creating friction that can heat the entire mass of food simultaneously.
  — Sarra Sedghi, Bon Appétit, 15 July 2022
• Each waveguide has a small heating element attached that allows the researchers to control the exact distance the photons travel between and in each interferometer.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2018
• There’s an acoustic waveguide on the bottom which ensures the sound is pushed out into space properly, essentially to deliver a 360-degree experience.
  — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 12 Nov. 2020
• The light then passes through a vertical waveguide, which restricts the way the light propagates and creates wavelength-dependent patterns; so different wavelengths of light land on different pixels on the detector.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Dec. 2023
• Within the waveguide, cascading mirrors redirect and expand light.
  — Ari Grobman, Forbes, 19 July 2022
• Lukens' team created its Talbot carpet in time by passing laser light through a 'phase modulator', a waveguide that also had an oscillating electrical voltage applied to it.
  — Zeeya Merali, Scientific American, 5 June 2013
• They are used in optical communications as waveguides and switches, as well as in filters, lasers, mirrors, and various anti-reflection stealth devices.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2023
• The 20 photons simultaneously entered a set of waveguides, where they were repeatedly mixed with each other, creating 60 output beams.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2019
• These waveguides are constructed from a material that, when excited appropriately, can emit light.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2018
• The system showed that there was a discontinuity at a particular location in the waveguide/antenna communication system.
  — Stephen Ibaraki, Forbes, 12 July 2022
• These chips replace the electrons found in conventional processors with photons and use optical components like waveguides, filters, and light detectors to create circuits that can carry out computational tasks.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 5 May 2023
• With integrated photonics, the precise alignment is inherent, because the waveguides carrying the light are lithographically defined.
  — Michael Watts, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024