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After a week getting steroids and pain medicine at Providence St. John’s Medical Center in Santa Monica, he received the biopsy results: an extremely aggressive malignant mass was blocking blood flow to Duong’s optic nerve.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

Three weeks ago, the Oscars production team loaded its equipment into the Dolby Theatre: more than 800 lighting fixtures, a custom PA system and massive fiber optic cables that run underground.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

Will he bow to US pressure to nix a project to link China and Chile across the Pacific via an undersea fiber optic cable?

From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026

This theory underpins much of today's technology, including computer chips, lasers, fiber optic communication, solar panels, MRI scanners, electron microscopes, and the atomic clocks used in GPS systems.

From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 2026

“And yours truly will continuously wink one optic or the other.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White