Sentence examples for optical material from inspiring English sources

"Silicon is not intrinsically the best optical material," explains Reed.

"It looked like a cool optical material," he said.

Until about 1920, the U. S. & Germany supplied Japan with almost all her optical material.

Now researchers have for the first time demonstrated what they call a five-dimensional optical material.

No active optical material is used in this design.

Prism devices Various optical material types, crown and flint glass, fused silica, low thermal expansion glasses.

(An optical material with a negative refractive index, for example, would "bend" light back, outside of the material).

Today's state-of-the-art modulators work at 40 gigabits per second, and for silicon to compete as an optical material, it needs to operate at comparable speeds.

More impressive than this is that they've built this cloak out of calcite, an ordinary and relatively cheap optical material, using conventional optical lens fabrication techniques.

"This is an optical material that is totally transparent in the visual range, and which you can process like a polymer," he says.

This is similar to a fibre laser, but uses a slab of optical material as the gain medium and produces a more powerful beam.