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fibre optics
noun
The transmission of light through fine flexible glass or plastic fibres, especially as a medium for communications networks.
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RMS has benefited enormously from the recent advances in high-power laser technology, optical microscopy, fibre optics and detectors with high quantum efficiency in this spectral range.
Through fibre optics both the laser and the spectrometer are remotely connected to an optical probe, working in the 45 0° configuration mode.
See also fibre optics.
Copper is displaced by fibre optics.
Smallpox was eradicated, miles of fibre optics laid, personal computers offered to the masses.
Instead of steel strings, fibre optics were fitted to sound out the notes.
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During the past decade, phosphor-fibre optics CCD detectors have proved quite adequate for some of the biological applications.
To enable optical access, a novel, minimally-intrusive method is presented, utilising standard fibre-optics and collimators.
The country is also a global leader in the use of fibre-optics technology.
"So that's what a supernova is," I realised with satisfaction, even though I still didn't know much about fibre-optics.
In 2001, he left his job — he was then at the fibre-optics company JDS Uniphase, in San Jose — to fold paper full time.
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