It's used in all kinds of products, including adhesives, fibre optics, sealants, cling film, paper, fuel, explosives, sporting equipment, roofing, bottle stoppers, and tires.

它在各种产品用包括粘合剂、光纤、密封剂食品薄膜、纸张、燃料、炸药运动器械、屋顶、瓶塞以及轮胎等。

And laser beams travel faster in a vacuum than they do through fibre optic cables, so you might even get slightly faster networking between the computers in space.

而且激光束在真空传播比通过光纤电缆更快，因此太空的计算机之间的网络速度可能会微快一点。

Fibre optics and broadband have created superfast internet speeds and an interconnected online world, where physical distances between people are no longer a barrier to communication - a situation expressed in the phrase, the global village.

光纤和宽带创造了超高速的网速和一个相互连接起来的网络世界， 在网络世界，人与人之间的物理距离不再是沟通的障碍——这种情况在 “地球村”这个短语体现。

The message-carrying photons will enter a single fibre optic strand, with an opening a mere 10 microns across, far smaller than the 100 microns of a photodiode, of which more than one may, in any case, be needed.

承载信息的光子将进入一根光纤，其开口仅有10微米宽，远小于100微米的光电二极管，而且在任何情况下可能需要多个光电二极管。

Embryonyx hopes to pull off this trick using a mirror, with a complex curved surface to redirect photons into a device the size of an iPhone that focuses the light and shoots it into the fibre optic strand.

Embryonyx 希望用镜子来实现这一技巧，镜子具有复杂的曲面， 可将光子重定向 iPhone 大小的设备， 该设备会聚焦光线并将其发射光纤束。