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What To Know The Ventspils-Gotland optical cable, part of the submarine optical fiber cable in the Baltic Sea belonging to SJSC Latvia State Radio and Television Centre, was found to be damaged last Sunday.
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
Beginning its five-year mission to measure the expanding universe in 2021, DESI incorporates 5,000 tiny robotic devices that can position 5,000 optical fibers to collect redshift data from 5,000 objects at a time.
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 22 Jan. 2025
So, the mice got the optical fibers implanted in their brains.
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Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2025
Other targets include speeding up the transmission and reception of the tokens, and the development of a QKD device that does not require dedicated optical fiber for the quantum channel.
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IEEE Spectrum, 21 Dec. 2024
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First Known Use
1962, in the meaning defined above
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“Optical fiber.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/optical%20fiber. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
optical fiber
noun
: a single fiber-optic strand
Medical Definition
optical fiber
noun
: a single fiber-optic strand
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