| 单词 | fibre optics |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfibre optics fibre optics n. the study and application of the transmission of images by means of total internal reflection through fibres of glass or other transparent solids. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > reflection > [noun] > study of catoptrics1570 anacamptics1696 catadioptrics1755 geometrical optics1835 fibre optics1956 1956 Times 3 Dec. 59/1 If one beam of light can be transmitted along a glass tube, why not transmit detailed images along the same path?.. Dr. Narinder Singh Kapany, 30, has succeeded by applying a technique he refers to as ‘fiber optics’. 1956 Times 3 Dec. 59/1 Fiber optics derives its name from its use of hair-thin strands of optical glass as light carriers. 1957 N. S. Kapany in Jrnl. Optical Soc. Amer. 47 117 (heading) An introduction to fiber optics. 1961 Engineering 4 Aug. 134/1 Fibre optics grew out of a need to look round corners, e.g. into complex castings or inside the kidney of a living person. 1970 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 July 817/1 The action of the vocal cords during speech can be observed..through a flexible fiber-optics tube which is inserted through the nose so that its end hangs above the vocal cords. < as lemmas |
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