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• n  a very thin fiber made of glass that functions as a waveguide for light; used in bundles to transmit images

• optical fiber
• glass fiber
• glass fibre

News & Articles

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• Solving The Internet Capacity Crunch: First Demonstration Of A Multicore Fibre Network
  With optical fibre networks gradually approaching their theoretical capacity limits, new types of fibres such as multicore fibres have been at the focus of worldwide research to overcome critical capacity barriers, which threaten the evolution of the Internet. The University of Bristol in collaboration with the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) have ...
  Oct. 11, 2013 - PhotonicsOnline