The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fiber optics \Fi"ber op`tics\,, n. that branch of optics which studies the transmission of light through thin transparent fibers.
Note: Light transmission through optical fibers has become an important means of data and telephone signal transmission, in some areas superseding the carrying of vioce and data signals through electrical pulses over copper wire. It is also used for directly carrying images from otherwise inaccessible locations, as from inside the body, for medical procedures. Light transmission via fiber optics for data transmission uses an optical fiber made of specially purified glass with low light absorption characteristics.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of fibre optics English)
WordNet
n. the transmission of light signals via glass fibers [syn: fiberoptics, fibre optics, fibreoptics]
Usage examples of "fiber optics".
Below this, on either side, where you'd sort of expect to see arms, huge bundles of wires, fiber optics, and tubes run up out of the floor and are seemingly plugged into Ng's shoulder sockets.
We're much further ahead now in terms of being able to access and collect network data, fiber optics, cellular data, all the different modalities of communications that we are targeting, and that results in a lot of output for our analysts.
There's no coherent electromagnetic radiation, but that might just mean they use fiber optics, tight beam transmissions that don't leak, or channeled subspace broadcast.
After selecting the lowest area of the wound, Snaresbrook sent the tiniest amount of ultraviolet light down the hair-thin fiber optics.
I imagined her moving her fingers and arms and stepping here and there as fiber optics made it possible for her to read every inch of the terrain on her CRTs.
A narrow wedge of light from a half-open service hatch framed a heap of discarded fiber optics and the chassis of a junked console.
Communications links may include fiber optics, phone lines and satellites.
He sat down gingerly, still smarting from the fiber optics and lubricated finger cots of all the body searches.