How to Use waveguide in a Sentence

waveguide

noun
Definition of waveguidenext
  • The thin wall acts as a waveguide for the sound wave and slows its speed compared to an unconfined sound wave.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 2 Mar. 2022
  • As the voltage varied, the speed at which the light teaveled through the waveguide was altered, splitting the light into its constituent frequencies and knocking these out of step.
    — Zeeya Merali, Scientific American, 5 June 2013
  • This waveguide enables sound waves to coast across entire ocean basins, says Bruce Cornuelle, a Scripps oceanographer who worked with Munk.
    — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 17 Sep. 2020
  • One example of such a component is a more efficient waveguide, which is used to route photons inside the chip.
    — Sara Castellanos, WSJ, 27 July 2021
  • At least in the case of the chain cat shark, the dark denticles serve as optical waveguides, channeling the fluorescence signal along their body length.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Each lens, known as a diffractive waveguide, is etched with tiny grooves that redirect light across the surface before being steered into a wearer’s eye.
    — Fortune, 26 Sep. 2020
  • The first stage provides a simple on–off movement of the coupler waveguide, thereby engaging or disengaging the coupler to the bus.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Jan. 2023
  • To do that, Pan and colleagues used another laser pulse and a device called a waveguide to stretch the photons’ wavelength 60% to the sweet spot for transmission down a standard optical fiber.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Light enters the waveguide through a small aperture in the microprojector, which is hidden in the temple of the eyeglasses, and leaves the waveguide through a larger aperture at the other end.
    — Ari Grobman, Forbes, 19 July 2022
  • The HomePod mini also features an acoustic waveguide, just like the full-size HomePod, which helps to direct the flow of sound toward the bottom of the device and outward to create 360-degree sound.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Vuzix’s setup uses a more-or-less traditional microdisplay, then mates that up to a flat piece of glass called an optical waveguide.
    — Noah Shachtman, WIRED, 11 Apr. 2011
  • Imagine a waveguide—a cylindrical pathway that confines the motion of a particle (an optical fiber is such a waveguide for photons of light, for example).
    — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 21 Oct. 2021
  • This device consists of a microwave power supply, an air compressor, a compressed microwave waveguide, and a flame igniter.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Rather than taking over the wearer’s vision like a VR headset, interface elements are projected onto a waveguide that appears in the corner of your vision.
    — Andrew Williams, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
  • The glasses have a MicroLED display with full-lens holographic waveguide technology.
    — Steven Winkelman, PCMAG, 4 Jan. 2022
  • The water in our food reacts to the electromagnetic waves distributed through the waveguide, creating friction that can heat the entire mass of food simultaneously.
    — Sarra Sedghi, Bon Appétit, 15 July 2022
  • Each waveguide has a small heating element attached that allows the researchers to control the exact distance the photons travel between and in each interferometer.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2018
  • There’s an acoustic waveguide on the bottom which ensures the sound is pushed out into space properly, essentially to deliver a 360-degree experience.
    — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 12 Nov. 2020
  • The light then passes through a vertical waveguide, which restricts the way the light propagates and creates wavelength-dependent patterns; so different wavelengths of light land on different pixels on the detector.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Within the waveguide, cascading mirrors redirect and expand light.
    — Ari Grobman, Forbes, 19 July 2022
  • Lukens' team created its Talbot carpet in time by passing laser light through a 'phase modulator', a waveguide that also had an oscillating electrical voltage applied to it.
    — Zeeya Merali, Scientific American, 5 June 2013
  • The 20 photons simultaneously entered a set of waveguides, where they were repeatedly mixed with each other, creating 60 output beams.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2019
  • These waveguides are constructed from a material that, when excited appropriately, can emit light.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2018
  • The system showed that there was a discontinuity at a particular location in the waveguide/antenna communication system.
    — Stephen Ibaraki, Forbes, 12 July 2022
  • These chips replace the electrons found in conventional processors with photons and use optical components like waveguides, filters, and light detectors to create circuits that can carry out computational tasks.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 5 May 2023
  • With integrated photonics, the precise alignment is inherent, because the waveguides carrying the light are lithographically defined.
    — Michael Watts, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Aug. 2023
  • Okan Atalar and Amin Arbabian in Stanford’s electrical engineering department started with thin-film lithium niobate, a material often used for waveguides and optical switches in cellphones and communications systems.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023

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