How to Use fiber optics in a Sentence

fiber optics

plural noun
Definition of fiber opticsnext
  • That’s the phase that will see us host fiber optics on power lines.
    — Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 25 Mar. 2022
  • That’s where fiber optics—and the mountains of data—come in.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 19 Dec. 2017
  • This sort of embrace could be felt through fiber optics, too.
    — Mike Seely, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2017
  • Using the poles means the city would mount the fiber optic for the first time aerially, rather than burying it.
    — Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 11 July 2018
  • OnLight Aurora now has more than 82 miles of fiber optics in the city.
    — Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The thing is, everyone who works with fiber optics has always known this.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2020
  • A long story about fiber optics, and the guy gets the yes, but before the check clears, somebody’s brother-in-law falls off a cliff and the sheiks in Dubai change their minds.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The dress was a prototype that featured fiber optic lights MacPhee was able to control from her phone.
    — Monique Judge, The Root, 18 Oct. 2017
  • In the future, one chip could replace a thousand lasers used in current fiber optics.
    — Popular Mechanics, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Still, even if fiber optics firms do come out of the current ban against selling to ZTE unscathed, larger threats are on the horizon.
    — Lucinda Shen, Fortune, 14 May 2018
  • Contractors had to string more than three miles of cables and fiber optics throughout each ship.
    — T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 20 Dec. 2019
  • The boats unfurled 40 miles of fiber optic cable into the dark, choppy water.
    — Cecilia Kang, The Seattle Times, 8 Dec. 2017
  • That’s still the arrangement, though the types of wires that vie for space on a pole have multiplied: telephone wire, cable wire, fiber optic wire . . .
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 2 July 2018
  • Other stations went off the air when their fiber optic cables were severed.
    — Jim Wyss, miamiherald, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Patrons wear their emotions on their sleeves while draped in blankets that contain a network of fiber optics.
    — Hannah Weinberger, Outside Online, 2 July 2014
  • On order is a 20-by-10-foot fiber optic curtain that will form a video wall that plays animation.
    — Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 24 Oct. 2019
  • The state also will add new rainwater drainage and pumps, and fiber optics to monitor the number and speed of vehicles.
    — Tony Bizjak, sacbee, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The research relies on fiber optics that imitate the basic structure of life: DNA.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 24 Oct. 2018
  • Aurora aldermen want to take a closer look at a plan to use ComEd poles for the expansion of the city’s fiber optic network.
    — Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 11 July 2018
  • White nylon string hanging through the net, along with green fiber optics that run through branches on the grid, create the willowy effect overhead.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The game serves as a warning and a rejoinder: the future is coming, but it is built not by servos and fiber optics, but by the decisions of people.
    — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2011
  • There were lawsuits filed by Dynus, a now-defunct fiber optics company, and the county against each other.
    — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 11 June 2018
  • That meant investing in water, sewer, fiber optics and more, depending on the site’s needs, Brock said.
    — Jamie McGee, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2018
  • Even the starry headliner—which uses hundreds of fiber optics to mimic a clear night sky—doesn't feel like a gimmick.
    — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Likewise, bringing fiber optics to all corners of this country is the right vision to keep America great.
    — WSJ, 24 Sep. 2023
  • It was supposed to take a year to finish, but three years later only a fraction of the 3,000 mile network of fiber optic cables known as Kentucky Wired has been built.
    — Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2017
  • That creates a characteristic ground vibration that disturbs the fiber optics near the track, which shows up in the light signal.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Some dendrites focused the light, channeling it outward like a kitschy fiber optic light display.
    — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Marra was accustomed to background noise on his fiber optics.
    — Eric Hand, Science | AAAS, 14 June 2018
  • In addition, each line of a comb can be isolated and have properties such as its amplitude modulated to carry data over fiber optics.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 12 Mar. 2024

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