Sentences with phrase «beam light through»

This is the highest - capacity undersea cable ever built — about ten million times faster than your average cable modem — and we're beaming light through it starting today.»

Each of these projectors is punctured by pinholes patterned after the positions of stars in the sky; a mercury vapor lamp encased by the colander beams light through the holes to create an accurate map of the stars on the ceiling of the dome.

Not exact matches

A laser beam (consisting of coherent light) is split by being passed through a half silvered mirror.

At last I perceived a beam of light glimmering at time top of the house (for such I may call the body I had been inclosed in), whither ascending, I gently let myself» down through a kind of chimney, and issued out at the nostrils as the window was wide open, I sallied forth into the open air: but, to my great astonishment, found myself unable to fly, which I had always during my habitation in the body conceived of spirits; however, I came so lightly to the ground that I did not hurt myself and, though I had not the gift of flying (owing probably to my having neither feathers nor wings), I was capable of hopping such a prodigious way at once, that it served my turn almost as well.

SPACING OUT Quantum communication through space is possible thanks to a Chinese satellite that beams particles of light down to telescopes like this one in Xinglong, China (shown here tracking the satellite's location with a laser).

After shining the light beam through a crystal to entangle the photons, the physicists split the beam in two, letting half of each entangled pair pass though the cat cutout.

Whereas classical physics insists that two light beams will pass right through each other untouched, some of the earliest predictions of QED stipulate that converging photons occasionally scatter off one another.

Optical interferometry at CHARA requires collecting the light beams from six different telescopes, sifting through multiple gigabytes of data, and then combining the beams to synthesize the kind of image that otherwise would be possible only with an enormous space telescope.

Any science fiction aficionado has seen it all before: beaming through walls, riding in starships that move faster than light, or traveling instantly to distant places in space and time.

It works by projecting beams of light through an oxygen - permeable window into a liquid resin.

To figure out the structure of a protein, you shoot a laser beam, ideally while mimicking a cartoon laser sound, through a crystal of that protein and study the resulting light diffraction pattern.

Now, when the laser beams rejoin, scientists see interference in the light's pattern, a jarring mismatch of peaks and valleys that spill the secrets of gravitational waves — if scientists can read through the static of local noise that can also jiggle the mirrors and mar the signal.

In this photo of the angular - selective sample (the rectangular region), a beam of white light passes through as if the sample was transparent glass.

One way to image these cause - and - effect relationships is through optogenetics, which involves genetically engineering mice so that their neurons fire when hit with a beam of light shone through the skull.

When a gravitational wave moves through the detector, though, it should stretch one arm of LIGO while shortening the other, changing the path of the beams and causing the rejoined waves to produce a detectable pattern of light.

At each of the facilities, a laser shoots a 35 - watt infrared beam through a Faraday isolator, which directs and polarizes the light.

Each light shines a flickering beam through the mesh of the sculpture — a sound signal carried on light.

The team also observed that graphene plasmons refract (bend) when they pass through a prism - shaped graphene bilayer, analogous to the bending of a light beam passing through a glass prism.

Lasers have long been at the heart of modern telecommunications because their intense light beams can be chopped up to represent digital currency's 1s and 0s and can travel through optical cables at light speed.

The team monitored the passage of light through the waveguide using a near - field scanning optical microscope and confirmed that a narrow beam of light successfully passes through the waveguide forwards, but that the wave's symmetry breaks down when traveling backwards2.

The opposing beams canceled out one another, creating a light field with uniform intensity that allowed the field's photons to pass through the Styrofoam particles instead of bouncing off their surface.

In this test, a beam of light is projected through two parallel slits cut in an opaque barrier and then onto a white screen.

When a beam of light is shone through two narrow holes in a screen, the light waves leaving the holes spread out like ripples on a pond.

A laser beam passing through a crystal can suddenly burst into a spray of light.

As the quasar's energy beams through this plunging gas, Barkana and Loeb calculated, the gas and the shock wave imprint a distinct pattern upon the spectrum of the quasar's light.

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.

After passing through the gaps, the surface waves initially enter the output optical waveguides as modulated light beams and are then superimposed.

This work is an early glimpse at medical robots that doctors could navigate through a patient's body from the outside with a focused beam of light, Tang says.

In the double - slit experiment, a beam of light passes through the two slits and produces an interference pattern on a detector screen — a pattern of light and dark bands.

«Depending on where we point the light beam, we can also stimulate individual muscle groups — exactly the same way the body does it through the nerves.»

In the early 19th century, the English physicist Thomas Young passed a beam of light through two narrow slits in a screen, and demonstrated the wave - like properties of light.

He started by splitting a light beam as it passed through a 400 - foot - long glass fiber, which created a 40 - picosecond gap of darkness as one part of the beam lagged behind the other.

Conventional lasers build their bright beams by bouncing light back and forth between two mirrors and through a block of material called the gain medium.

This is the case in Stupp's polymer, so a beam of infrared laser light (with wavelength 1068 nanometres) shone through it will emerge in the green part of the spectrum with a wavelength of 534 nanometres.

He ran some of the residue through his spectrometers and chromatographs, which shoot a beam of light at a sample to measure its absorption.

They «pinned - down» the light by shining beams in opposite directions through the device to create a standing wave.

In the Rochester setup, laser light was measured and then shunted through a beam splitter.

A water sample is placed inside the cylinder where it interacts with zinc ions, and a laser light is beamed into the object and onto the sample through a small hole, Yakovlev explains.

A beam of light shined through the superlattice of this zero - index metamaterial was unaffected, as if it had passed through a vacuum.

Sunlight that makes it through falls onto the concentrator (2), a concave panel of 180 mirrors that focuses the light into a beam and sends it into a 16 - foot - long test chamber (3).

When co-author Zhaoming Zhu, Gauthier's postdoctoral research associate, encoded information onto one of these beams, the data could be imprinted on these newly created phonons and retained for 12 billionths of a second, long enough to be transferred back to light again by shining a third laser through the fiber.

Then one day in April 2011, Gaeta sent a beam of light into one end of the fiber and through a time lens, splitting the beam into two parts.

You might have seen the light beam traveling through the water, which should have been relatively narrow, as the light does not interact much with the water molecules.

Using a digital micromirror to split beams of light and direct them through apertures in polymer pyramids, Northwestern University researchers drew a variety of molecular architectures and used those to make up the «land» in a

But that speed changes when light passes through a material, like glass or water, or when it runs into another light beam.

«It's not a glass lens like you'd find in a camera,» Fischer said, «but we call the technique «electron lensing» because, like a lens that focuses light, the electron beam changes the trajectory of the protons flying through it.»

Rather than just rerouting the rays of light striking an object, a time cloak would have to deflect all the light beams influenced by the object as it moves through space.

The time lens combined the two techniques: It involved hitting a beam of light with a laser just as it passed through a glass fiber, allowing considerable control over the beam's speed.

The easy part is creating entangled photons: just shoot light through a special, «downconverting» crystal that acts as a beam splitter; it produces separate yet linked rays.

Since interacting light beams with different colours pass through a nonlinear optical material at different speeds, they can become «out of step» and the desired effect can be lost.