Sentences with phrase «beam of light into»

[7] For the Venice Biennale in 2003, he created Cleave 03, an installation which consisted of a World War II searchlight sending a seven - mile beam of light into the night sky over the Giudecca flashing intermittently in a morse code version of Ellis Wynne's 1703 Welsh text Gweledigaethau y Bardd Cwsc.

A decade of learning and development slices as sharply as a beam of light into the fog of luxury SUVs, clearing a path for the brilliant 2017 Audi Q7.

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.

If you get the thickness of a metal layer right, you can make a beam splitter that divides an incident beam of light into two equal parts, with just a little bit of the light lost to the metal film itself.

Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of space - time that physicists are trying to detect with interferometers — devices that split a beam of light into two and then recombine them to create interference fringes.

Yet critics have frequently objected to the transformation of Cheever's characters by means of midnight cloudbursts or the beaming of light into a dark place.

Not exact matches

Holly has borrowed Lewis» metaphor, saying of the Christian poets she had come to love: «I've stepped into that «beam of light» so that I can look with them, and they can show me more than they could before.»

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.

Yet, lawyers, as recent history has shown, have an important role to play in exposing corruption, in beaming the light of publicity into the dark corners of society, in showing up the inadequacies of the law, and so on.

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

And if this beam is also focused into a speck with a three millimeter diameter, then we get an intensity of light an order higher than the intensity of light close to the sun's surface, which has a radiation power of about 20 gigawatts a square meter.

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.

An optical lens can deflect a light beam into a much smaller area of space; a time lens deflects a section of a light beam into a smaller chunk of time.

RoF works by encoding different types of wireless signals into a beam of light and sending them down a fibre - optic cable.

A gamma ray burst is thought to emerge when jets of hot matter moving at near — light - speed shoot out along the rotational axis of the newborn black hole, beaming radiation into space like a lighthouse.

Further discoveries and patents led to WGM biosensors capable of gauging the mass of viruses, proteins and other nanoparticles by sending them into spacecraft - like orbit around the micro-bead, thanks to a photonic «tractor beam» caused by the resonating light.

Whereas Sagnac shone light into his experiment from an external source, the C - II's ring itself generated laser beams, its cavities filled with a lasing medium of neon and helium gas.

He split light into two beams that traveled in opposite directions around the mirrored perimeter of a spinning tabletop.

The world's most powerful x-ray laser, known as the Linac Coherent Light Source, sits at the end of a linear particle accelerator and converts the particle beam into an x-ray beam.

That's key to producing negative refraction, which the researchers demonstrated by cutting the slab into a wedge and using it as a prism to bend light beams of various colors.

For starters, researchers must show that the materials can lase when plugged into an electrical outlet, rather than when hit with another beam of laser light.

Conventional rockets would carry the miniature probes into Earth orbit, and a synchronized array of ground - based lasers would then focus its beams on individual sails, imparting enough force to accelerate each probe to 20 percent of the speed of light.

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

But the researchers have demonstrated experimentally that their setup — which includes lasers to feed beams of polarized light into a network of optical fibers, beam - splitters and other optical devices — gives results that agree closely with their predictions.

Instead of amplifying light into coherent pulses, as a laser does, an antilaser absorbs light beams zapped into it.

Optical physicists have been using spiraling laser beams, in which light waves are twisted into vortices, for almost 30 years, says Jo Verbeeck, a materials scientist at the University of Antwerp in Belgium and first author on the Nature paper.

When I was a student at the Bronx High School of Science in New York City, our principal, Dr. Morris Meister, had an image for scientific endeavor and the enlightenment it brings: «Think of science as a powerful searchlight continuously widening its beam and bringing more of the universe into the light,» he said.

In hundreds of experiments he glued a living fly to a special plastic platform under a microscope, sunk a wisp - thin electrode into its honeycombed eye, and recorded how its retina responded to beams of light.

The device consists of a 75 - watt lamp, combined with optics that collect and focus the visible light into a targeted beam, which can be aimed like a flashlight.

But by squeezing the light into a smaller beam, more dots, or bits of information, can be stored.

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).

Using the a digital micromirror device similar to those found in media projectors, they split light from an LED into thousands of separate beams and steer each into the base of a separate pyramid.

The author, theoretical physicist Martin McCall of Imperial College London, proposed splitting a light beam into two segments moving at different speeds.

«We make use of the attenuation of the signal from the gold surface to simply convert the wavefront shape — or slope — into an intensity difference in a beam of light,» explained Vohnsen.

Because number plates in the UK are made to reflect light back in the direction of its origin, the infrared light can be focused into a very tight beam and placed close to the camera.

These photons then bounced off mirrors at each end of the cavity to build into a coherent beam of microwave light.

Electric and magnetic fields accelerate beams of lighter elements smack - dab into a heavier target element.

Entanglement starts with a beam of light shot into a crystal.

This light is then beamed into a second crystal of KTP (potassium titanyl phosphate) which has a non-linear optical characteristic and generates a second harmonic of the input frequency at 0.5 micrometres.

But with our most powerful technology, she says, we could theoretically pack all the internet's contents into a message sent tens of thousands of light - years away through a laser beam — which means another civilization could do the same

The cell was then fit into a microscope that uses a beam of electrons, rather than light, to obtain images.

A small amount of light also seeps into the darker middle part of the beam, heating the air on one side of the particle and pushing it along the length of the laser beam.

Bodies crossing the event horizon, or a beam of light directed at such an object, would seemingly just disappear — pulled into a «bottomless pit.»

One night however, a cow, perhaps intrigued by the strange glowing flower in the desert, wandered into the light beam and photo - bombed the experiment, thus becoming part of the history of space exploration.

Arne Voie, David Burns and Francis Spelman focused a laser beam into a thin sheet to illuminate a fluorescent sample and captured the reflected light using a different objective lens oriented perpendicular to the plane of illumination (i.e. light sheet).

Other useful properties of synchrotron light are: - high energy beams to penetrate deeper into matter - small wavelengths permit the studying of tiny features, e.g. bonds in molecules; nanoscale objects - synchrotron beams can be coherent and / or polarised, permitting specific experiments - the synchrotron beam can be made to flash at a very high frequency, giving the light a time structure.

By genetically inserting light - activated biological molecules such as channelrhodopsins, a family of proteins found in algae, into neurons, scientists can instantaneously turn them on using beams of blue light with millisecond precision.

This device sends a beam of light that is absorbed by the color brown into the deepest layers of skin, essentially destroying the pigmented cells that created the spot.

Place a piece of this money stone on your business card in your office to feel its rays of light beaming into your financial life.

There are cascading beams of light the pour into the set and ARE ALWAYS AT THE SAME ANGLE.