Sentence examples for instead of optical from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, screen printing instead of optical lithography method was used to generate etching masks.

Instead of optical fibre, HP is using waveguides small strips of plastic with grooves on their highly reflective metallic walls.

A laser interferometer, instead of optical sensors used in a typical piston prover, is employed to measure testing time and moving distance of the piston, accurately.

Instead of optical light sources polluting our view, sources of radio waves, such as cell phones, wireless internet transmitters, GPS satellites, etc., all obscure our view of celestial radio sources.

Like the Hubble Space telescope which preceded it, Chandra is designed to have an unprecedented ability to create images and spectra of astrophysical objects, except working with high energy X-rays instead of optical light.

Our results demonstrate a significant cost reduction that could be achieved by employing hybrid hierarchical optical crossconnects instead of optical crossconnects with opto-electronic fabric that can process a single granularity only.

That said, HDMI-ARC is a bit jarring for first timers, but Sonos is sure that enough TVs support it that they can use it instead of optical-only.

Instead of an optical or visual readout, electrical input and electrical readout are utilized.

Key to the device is what's missing: Instead of the optical drive built into most other portable devices, the MacBook Air can wirelessly borrow another device's optical drive, so that it can access software or data stored on a disk.

Plus, you'll get an HDMI port instead of that optical drive.

Ultrasound sensors are there for close range "no-look" gesture control - they pick up movements with help of a microphone instead of an optical camera, explains Qualcomm's director of technology Francis MacDougall.