light guide

noun

1. optical fiber.

Word History and Origins

Origin of light guide¹

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

“Let the love light guide me home,” Shultz sings on the melancholy “Skin and Bones.”

From Washington Times

Leia calls the tech “Diffractive Lightfield Backlighting” and says that it works by placing a “nanostructured light guide plate” beneath the LCD.

From The Verge

BB-9E’s head is comprised of two LEDs and a light guide.

From The Verge

The cable functions as a kind of light guide, guiding the light pulses introduced at one end of the cable through to the other end, where a light-sensitive receiver converts the pulses back into the electronic digital Is and Os of the original signal, so they can then show up on your computer screen as e-mail or in your cell phone as a voice.

From Literature

Leia essentially replaces the standard light guide with their own more sophisticated panel.

From Reuters