waveguide
- noun
- /ˈweɪvˌɡaɪd/
- Specialized
- Fiber optics uses light waveguides to transmit messages through hair-thin plastic or glass fibers.
- optical waveguide
- fiber waveguide
- waveguide laser
Examples
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You can create waveguides actually for VIS for visible light.
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Fiber optics uses light waveguides to transmit messages through hair-thin plastic or glass fibers.
Academic text (1990) -
In a similar fashion, a line of defects can serve as a waveguide.
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One possibility would be to use the cantilever itself as a waveguide to guide light to the tip.
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When coupled into an optical waveguide, the familiar narrowband radiation from a laser can become spectrally broadened into the ultimate white light.
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In a dielectric waveguide, a beam propagating in a high-index medium undergoes total internal reflection from boundaries with lower index media.
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For in-phase beams, the intensity and hence the refractive index between the beams' induced waveguides are increased.
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Thanks to the ability nowadays to readily engineer dispersion into optical fibers, it is possible to fabricate optical waveguides that can generate a supercontinuum from a wide range of pump-laser sources.
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Some companies employ glass waveguides to shuttle light efficiently between components in their optical systems.
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Researchers developed a new kind of waveguide that improves light transmission in photonic circuits.
Compounds
- Specialized
A structure that directs sound along a path, for example inside a speaker
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Morphology
Etymology
The word waveguide is made of wave + guide, so think of it as a tiny road for light: 'wave' here means light or infrared energy and 'guide' means 'to lead', which is why a waveguide confines and carries light across a chip like a small light pipe.