fibre optics

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This is because Starlink, rather than relying on fibre optics or cables to transmit data, uses a network of satellites in low Earth orbit.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2025

Dr Ori Henderson-Sapir, project investigator at the UoA's Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, says that Australia has a long history of developing innovative fibre optics technologies.

From Science Daily • Nov. 20, 2023

“There were forty of them, and they kept to themselves and lived in the basement. They were going to put fibre optics into mouse brains to try to control which way the mouse moves.”

From The New Yorker • Apr. 4, 2017

His first job was at consumer electronics conglomerate Philips in a lab working on fibre optics, but Drahi soon set out to be an entrepreneur in the nascent cable sector.

From Reuters • Apr. 7, 2014

Rather than bouncing around in a plastic space bubble, Coyne, cradling a baby doll, stands atop a futuristic chrome dome smothered in tentacle-like fibre optics.

From The Guardian • May 22, 2013