Carpe diem is a Latin aphorism, usually translated seize the day, taken from the Roman poet Horace 's Odes (23 BC). 1  1 Translation.
Fiber optics (optical fibers) are long, thin strands of very pure glass about the diameter of a human hair. They are arranged in bundles called optical cables and used to transmit light signals over long distances. If you look closely at a single optical fiber, you will see that it has the following parts: 1  Core-Thin glass center of the fiber where the light travels. 2  Cladding-Outer optical material surrounding the core that reflects the light back into the core.
A technology that uses specially designed bundles of transparent fibers to transmit light. Note: Some of the applications of fiber optics are in medicine, where it is used to view otherwise inaccessible parts of the body, and in telecommunications, where it is used to transmit data of all types. fiber optics in Technology Expand. spelling. US spelling of fibre optics. See optical fibre.