Definition of "waveguides" [waveguides]

• Plural form of waveguide. (noun)

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• "Inspired by this, Luke Lee and colleagues developed an artificial compound eye consisting of a moulded polymer resin dome filled with thousands of light-guiding channels, called waveguides, each topped with its own miniature lens."
• "The light generated from these tiny lasers can be guided along etched channels called waveguides, and modulated with tiny silicon modulators that have ramped from a few hundred megahertz at the beginning of the millennium up to the current versions which can work at frequencies high enough to transmit 40Gbps on a single channel."
• "The chip has optical circuits, submicrometer scale "tiny strips of silicon called waveguides or photonic wires.""