optical fiber

noun

1. a very thin, flexible glass or plastic strand along which large quantities of information can be transmitted in the form of light pulses: used in telecommunications, medicine, and other fields.

optical fiber

1. A flexible transparent fiber of extremely pure glass or plastic, generally between 10 and 200 micrometers in diameter, used especially to carry light signals for telecommunication purposes.
2. See more at fiber optics

Word History and Origins

Origin of optical fiber¹

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

Her orange hair shoots upward like a bouquet of optical fibers that defy gravity.

From New York Times

He then used bigger optical fibers and increased the intensity to stimulate the DRNs.

From Science Daily

To test it, they injected light into a 2-kilometer-long optical fiber cable, similar to the ones used for optical telecommunication.

From Science Daily

The Harvard team established the practical makings of the first quantum internet by entangling two quantum memory nodes separated by optical fiber link deployed over a roughly 22-mile loop through Cambridge, Somerville, Watertown, and Boston.

From Science Daily

Additionally, the researchers demonstrated overprinting of a ball lens onto an optical fiber, which was previously only possible using an additive manufacturing technique known as two-photon polymerization.

From Science Daily