How to Use fiber optics in a Sentence

fiber optics

plural noun
  • In modern fiber optics, this loss is so small that light can travel hundreds of miles and still be seen.
    — John Ballato, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Demand for its fiber optics cables is surging.
    — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Coen said on social media that the gas line was hit by fiber optics installers.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The trivergence Three events took place within roughly a 10-year span that paved the way for today’s fiber optics.
    — John Ballato, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The telecom industry has spent hundreds of billions of dollars laying the fiber optics network down.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The result is a statute built for a world of rotary dials, operating in a world defined by fiber optics and streaming platforms.
    — Jay Caruso, The Washington Examiner, 27 Feb. 2026
  • All this spending has meant higher revenue for Corning's division that houses fiber optics.
    — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The real reason to own this stock, according to Jim, is Corning’s fiber optics solutions.
    — Morgan Chittum,paulina Likos, CNBC, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Billions of miles of fiber optics have been made since the 1970s and installed globally for communications.
    — John Ballato, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Corning’s fiber optics solutions provide a more efficient alternative to the copper wiring found in data centers.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The Lexington Police Department said in a statement that the leaks were caused when fiber optics installers struck unmarked gas lines.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Corning is also a winner from the AI buzz because its specialty glass can be used in data centers, given the advantages of fiber optics over copper wiring.
    — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Corning is the leading producer of fiber optics, and has already been signing contracts with companies to connect data centers within certain distances.
    — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2025
  • But the technology’s small size and weight, coupled with its high strength, flexibility and transparency, make fiber optics useful for many other applications.
    — John Ballato, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2026
  • That level of material purity and manufacturing control makes fiber optics a modern marvel.
    — John Ballato, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Looking at the bigger picture, this isn’t a breakthrough in terms of fiber optics; similar achievements have happened in Japan, Europe, and the US.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 13 June 2026
  • Not only have copper prices risen significantly over the past year, but fiber optics operate at a lower heat threshold, meaning less cooling is needed and, in turn, cheaper operating costs.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Scientists have successfully made germanium, a key semiconductor used in computer chips and fiber optics, superconducting for the first time.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Today, fiber optics are used as sensors for geologic events, such as earthquakes, as monitors for infrastructure, including bridges, roads and buildings, and as conduits for imaging and laser treatments inside the body.
    — John Ballato, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The Nobel Committee praised their work for advancing technologies like fiber optics, cameras, and cellphones, and for helping propel efforts to build quantum computers.
    — Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Corning makes the fiber optics within data centers, which have seen fervent demand as hyperscalers invest hundreds of billions of dollars into these energy-intensive facilities.
    — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Another Russian development, unveiled on August 8th, uses fiber optics.
    — David Hambling, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Wide-ranging closures of freeway lanes and ramps are scheduled to resume in the Bay Area to install fiber optics as part of a major California broadband initiative, according to a state government agency.
    — George Avalos, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The closures are required for the installation of fiber optics as part of California’s Fiber Optics Infrastructure Program.
    — George Avalos, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2026
  • And so that is still at the very beginning, the next frontier for us in AI, is what’s called the scale-up piece of the network as fiber replaces copper, fiber optics photons replace electrons, deeper and deeper in those GPU neural networks.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
  • That single call across a river in 1876 laid foundational ideas for switching networks, amplifiers, long-distance cables, undersea fiber optics, satellites, and ultimately, mobile networks and the internet.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Kun Xiao/Beijing Normal University The scientists embedded fiber optics that contained etches called fiber Bragg gratings into the silicone rubber patches, which were between 1 and 3 millimeters thick.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Messer’s customers include electronics and fiber optics manufacturers, metal fabrication, welding and medical imaging companies, space exploration firms, defense equipment providers, and government and academic scientific research facilities.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 24 Nov. 2025
  • In the past, data centers tended to cluster near the I-35 corridor, from Dallas-Fort Worth to San Antonio, where power grid connection is readily available and there’s access to the fiber optics needed to transmit data, Lin said.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2026

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