Sentences with phrase «large numbers of photons»

Many biological specimens, like the fruit fly embryo, are so opaque that they scatter large numbers of photons, filling pictures with static.

He doubts that the effect has any practical use because it doesn't generate large numbers of photons, but he considers it a nice demonstration of quantum mechanics.

He predicted a «superradiant» state, where, when large numbers of photons or quanta are put into a system with many atoms, the decay becomes much faster than for a single atom in isolation.

A point to keep in mind - although PA - FPs are vastly improved over the conventional FPs for super-resolution imaging, they still do not emit the large number of photons achievable with photoswitchable dyes.

Not exact matches

They have indeed discovered a compact galaxy emitting a large number of ionizing photons, which are responsible for this transformation of the Universe.

It pumps 20 liters (about 5.3 gallons) of seawater and plankton per second through a «light tight» collection chamber large enough to capture even fast swimmers and keep them inside long enough for the device's fiber - optic instruments to record and measure, in photons per liter, the size, duration, and number of an organism's flashes.

Platzman's and Mills» gamma - ray laser proposal involves generating coherent emission of these 511 keV photons by persuading a large number of Ps atoms to commit suicide at the same time, thus generating an intense gamma - ray pulse.

The simplest method of generating groups of photons is to use a sufficiently large number of sources.

You have to look at the absorption crosssection per molecule of CO2 and count up the number of CO2 molecules per unit area that would be in the path of a photon travelling a certain distance in the atmosphere you can understand how such a low concentration of CO2 can have such a large effect.