Sentences with phrase «use of laser light»

This involves the use of a laser light applied directly to the affected muscles.
Laser Therapy for Pets involves the use of a laser light applied directly to the affected areas.
This is a unique use of laser light, due to the noninvasive nature of the treatment.
Veterinary laser therapy is the use of laser light to alleviate pain and inflammation, as well as heal wounds.
A recent example is the 1997 Nobel in Physics to Steven Chu of Stanford University for his use of laser light to trap and cool atoms to nearly absolute zero.
«Use of laser light yields versatile manipulation of a quantum bit.»

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In its filing, Waymo said it was inadvertently copied on an email from one of its suppliers with drawings of Uber's circuit board design for its lidar technology, short for light detection and ranging,» that are laser - based sensors used in self - driving cars.
Photonics involves the use of light and optics, such as lasers, in a number of applications, including internet networks.
Without the use of a black light, the extent of the disease could go unnoticed and worsen over time with ultraviolet ray exposure or laser therapy.
Their new methods for using laser light to «trap» and slow down atoms to study them in greater detail «contributed greatly to increasing our knowledge of the interplay between radiation and matter,» the Nobel Committee said in 1997.
The laser light is easy to use and turns one with the flip of a switch.
Last year a team led by Kerry Valhala at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena used this principle to amplify the mechanical oscillations of a tiny resonator just as light is amplified in a laser (Physical Review Letters, vol 104, p 083901).
This novel, less invasive way of detecting disease using light salient properties was employed for the first time in 1991 to identify a fingerprint for cancer in tissue by a team led by Robert Alfano, a Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering at The City College of New York, and director of The Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers (IUSL) of the City University of New York at City College.
Current systems use the formation of sound waves followed by the absorption of light which means that the tissues must adequately absorb the laser light.
The report suggests that FEMA, or towns, could determine the elevations of many homes at once using truck - mounted LIDAR, a technology that measures distance by analyzing the reflected light of a laser.
Then they used a laser to fire photons at the plate and recorded the pattern of light on the other side.
Using an optical fiber and laser light, physicists have simulated a «white hole» — essentially a black hole working in reverse — as they report on page 1367 of this week's issue of Science.
They use a near - infrared laser beam, which can penetrate deep — in this context, deep means a centimeter or two — into the tissue, where a nanoparticle turns the near - infrared light into blue light, and that directs the activity of genetically engineered immune cells.
The prototype only works with coherent illumination sources such as lasers, but Ashok Veeraraghavan, a Rice assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, said it's a step toward a SAVI camera array for use in visible light.
Different sources of light were used, ranging from a laser to white light simulating the solar spectrum.
«As far as we are aware, this is the highest level of ionisation that has ever been achieved using light,» explains the co-author Robin Santra from the research team, who is a leading DESY scientist at the Center for Free - Electron Laser Science (CFEL).
He and his colleagues plan to hit a thorium - 229 target using light from a particle accelerator, which can be more easily tuned across a wide range of wavelengths than a laser.
Once DAVID's manual scan is complete, the software uses the calibration marks and the reflected laser light to calculate the three - dimensional coordinates of the object, and voila — you have yourself a quick and dirty 3 - D model.
The technique, called microenvironmental selective plane illumination microscopy (meSPIM), uses exceptionally long, thin beams of laser light to trigger fluorescence in a sample, causing it to glow.
Senior author Jelena Vuckovic, a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford, has been working for years to develop various nanoscale lasers and quantum technologies that might help conventional computers communicate faster and more efficiently using light instead of electricity.
Lee and his team used computer simulations to demonstrate that high extraction efficiency is obtained when a waveguide (a light - carrying submicrometer - wide semiconductor strip) is directly connected to the side of the laser.
Collins and his colleagues used the OMEGA laser at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics at the University of Rochester in New York, which can produce 40 kilojoule pulses of intense light for a nanoselaser at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics at the University of Rochester in New York, which can produce 40 kilojoule pulses of intense light for a nanoseLaser Energetics at the University of Rochester in New York, which can produce 40 kilojoule pulses of intense light for a nanosecond.
The ANU team not only succeeded in building the experiment, which seemed nearly impossible when it was proposed in 1978, but reversed Wheeler's original concept of light beams being bounced by mirrors, and instead used atoms scattered by laser light.
As each flash is intense enough to completely ionise a neon atom and release an electron, the researchers could use those electrons like a flashgun, to illuminate some of the original 2.5 femtosecond trigger pulses of laser light.
Anatomical examination of human and mouse eyes was used to determine the effect of the laser on the sensitive light - detecting retina.
Scientists made select nerve cells in mice's brains sensitive to light, and then used lasers to activate specific groups of those cells.
However, getting strong pulses of x-rays is much harder than for low energy light, and required using the most modern sources, x-ray free electron lasers.
«In our laboratory using laser light we analyzed how the manners of vibration of molecules in the crystal changed with increasing pressure and on this basis we drew conclusions about the structure of the material.
The method uses two lasers to measure the positions of opposite ends of a molecule, or two different objects, based on the intensity of scattered light.
Using laser light, Steinhauer manipulated the fluid to flow faster than the speed of sound.
Like the existing facility, LCLS - II will use electrons accelerated to nearly the speed of light to generate beams of extremely bright X-ray laser light.
The laser light used in DVD players operates at a wavelength of 650 nanometers (nm), which means it has a visible red color.
Physicists borrow an old tool from geology to focus «cathodoluminescence» and use it to probe the interior layers of metamaterials in lasers, light - based circuits and solar cells
Working at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray laser at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the scientists then used a newly designed injection system, engineered by a team from Arizona State University, to stream the gel into the path of the X-ray pulses, which hit the crystals and produced patterns used to reconstruct a high - resolution, 3 - D model of the receptor.
Instead, the researchers are using a plastic material which emits red light when illuminated with green laser light — and the amount of red light it emits is reduced by the presence of explosives.
Taking a page from the art - restoration handbook, scientists sampled a variety of light sources to see if any could be used to strip the ink from laser - printed documents without damaging or discoloring the paper.
Many major observatories already have — or are developing — systems that use powerful lasers to project pinpoints of light high in the atmosphere.
«Our team was able to accomplish this task by using Raman spectroscopy with an ultraviolet laser, instead of conventional visible light lasers.
Guided by theory and using computer simulations to test various scenarios, the researchers looked at how beams of various colors and phases — basically a hodgepodge of laser light — affected the plasma.
The device makes use of a phenomenon called electromagnetically induced transparency, in which a laser beam can render opaque clouds of atoms temporarily transparent to a narrow wavelength of light.
The new type of accelerator, known as a laser - plasma accelerator, uses pulses of laser light that blast through a soup of charged particles known as a plasma; the resulting plasma motion, which resemble waves in water, accelerates electrons riding atop the waves to high speeds.
Like many of the projects undertaken in Raskar's Camera Culture Group, the new system uses a time - of - flight camera, which fires ultrashort bursts of laser light into a scene and measures the time it takes their reflections to return.
When used to perform HHG, the argon crystal reduced the wavelength of incoming laser light 40-fold, compared to 20-fold in argon gas hit with the same level of illumination.
That is what makes the use of LiDAR, the light detection and ranging technology, so exciting, said Juan Carlos Fernandez - Diaz, laser operator and electronics engineer at the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping, based at the University of Houston, Tlaser operator and electronics engineer at the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping, based at the University of Houston, TLaser Mapping, based at the University of Houston, Texas.
The research team from the Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials, and the Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at the University of Bath, used a special white - light laser built in - house and directed it through several optical components to put a twist on the beam.
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