Sentences with phrase «glass fiber core»
Similar in diameter to a human hair and with a breaking strength of only 4 kilograms (8.8 pounds), the tether is composed of glass fiber core with a very thin protective jacket of plastic.
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The internet and telecommunications are based on an optical core network that connects cities worldwide using glass fibers.
This unique characteristic of the liquid fiber cores reduces fluctuations in the spectral bandwidth of the supercontinuum light source and makes liquid core fibers a more stable alternative to the known broadband light sources based on optical fibers made from special glasses.
A division of Élan Motorsports Technologies (a Panoz LLC affiliate), Élan Composites is an advanced composites parts and tooling maker that uses modern, ultra-lightweight materials such as carbon fiber, prepreg glass, aramid fibers, Kevlar ®, aluminum and Nomex ® core, and woven polypropylene to create components for automotive, motorsports, aerospace and many other applications.
When manufacturing fiber optic cable, filaments of plastic - coated glass strands are bundled in concentric helical layers around a central core: 12, 24, 48 (or more) exquisitely thin mile - long strands piled adjacent to each other, transmitting information encoded as pulses of light, tightly bound together yet never quite touching.