How to Use waveguide in a Sentence

waveguide

noun

• Graphene has been shown to serve as a waveguide.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Aug. 2019
• This means that the new waveguide is just six angstroms thick.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Aug. 2019
• For one, the photons could get lost in the waveguides that compose the network.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2017
• Light is channeled along the length of each cantilever via a waveguide, and exits at its tip.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Apr. 2026
• 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
• The waveguide itself is a plastic core with metal cladding, all wrapped in a metal shield.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Dec. 2025
• This structure more or less serves as the substrate on which the waveguide is constructed.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Aug. 2019
• The first indicator is the pair of waveguides on the lenses.
  — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 9 Apr. 2026
• Engineers route light through waveguides on the chip toward the emitters.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 12 Mar. 2026
• By their very nature, a waveguide directs light in the plane of the material.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Aug. 2019
• Each waveguide provides a distinct path that feeds into the planar lens and corresponds to one beam in free space.
  — Josué J. López, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Dec. 2020
• The system is designed such that the beams emitted from adjacent waveguides overlap in the far-field.
  — Josué J. López, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Dec. 2020
• The right lens is etched with a rectangular waveguide that is only visible to others from the back.
  — PC Magazine, 11 Apr. 2025
• Dispelix designs the waveguides.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Aug. 2021
• When the light comes in from an optical fiber, it is guided to the gap between the two metals by an optical waveguide.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Feb. 2016
• To do this, the researchers used the nanoantenna arrays to draw light from deep inside the waveguide core to the surface of the waveguide.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Apr. 2017
• 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
• But most photonic systems keep light confined within tiny optical waveguides on the chip.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 12 Mar. 2026
• In this way, the entire horizontal field-of-view is covered by beams emitted from the discrete number of waveguides.
  — Josué J. López, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Dec. 2020
• And the waveguides that Sallie was working on were called hyper-frequency waveguides.
  — Erica Huang, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
• The pads were both placed on top of an optical waveguide made of silicon, with only a few nanometers separating them.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Feb. 2016
• The displays are micro-LED waveguides that pump out a bright 2,500 nits each.
  — Eric Zeman, PCMAG, 3 Mar. 2025
• So in this analogy, the gold nanorods of the nanoantenna are the feed elements and the optical waveguide is the cable.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 19 July 2017
• 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
• Another possibility is that the photons get lost in the process of launching them into the waveguides.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2017
• In this mode, the signal wave does not couple into the resonator, and passes through a silicon waveguide without losses.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 May 2018
• On their own, the lenses are flat and clear, with rectangular waveguides etched into rectangular sections near the top.
  — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 29 Apr. 2026
• As for the waveguide, it’s made of a dielectric at the center, which channels the terahertz signal, surrounded by cladding.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Dec. 2025
• 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
• 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