Sentences with phrase «laser beams through»

He is completely blind in his right eye, but that doesn't stop him from staring laser beams through me while I'm eating.

The researchers focused the smaller laser beams through the cloud of ultracold atoms and found that each beam's focus — the point at which the beam's intensity was highest — attracted a single atom, essentially picking it out from the cloud and holding it in place.

«When we focus about one hundred laser beams through this cloud, each of them acts like a trap.

Can you direct a laser beam through a maze using your brain?Sounds impossible, but that's the object of this mental workoutthat features challenges for beginners to experts.

To do so they made the atoms in the sample vibrate by shining a laser beam through a small hole in the photodetector, which was placed right on top of the sample.

They then directed a second laser beam through an instrument that splits the laser beam into many smaller beams, the number and angle of which depend on the radio frequency applied to the deflector.

They directed a laser beam through a lens and onto a mirror, which reflected back a second beam.

These are emitted by the quadrillion from the fusion factory at the core of the sun and usually pass through matter like a laser beam through fog.

The FroliCat Dart takes the traditional laser one step further by automatically rotating a laser beam through the room, leading your cat on an endless chase.

Not exact matches

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

LIGO detects gravitational waves by splitting a powerful infrared laser beam in two, then sending the beams at right angles through tunnels to mirrors 2.5 miles away.

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).

This cosmic paperweight is handmade by an artist who uses laser beams to make tiny stars: Each laser pulse passes through the glass except at its focal point, where the concentrated energy creates a bright star.

In the 1970s, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California focused on the former, boosting laser energy by routing beams through additional lasing crystals made of glass doped with neodymium.

To insure the beam's integrity, the laser travels through sealed stainless steel tubes, 1.2 meters wide, that hold a vacuum to just one trillionth of earth's atmosphere, eight times less than open space.

In that experiment, a laser beam passes through a pair of vertical slits, producing an interference pattern of bright and dark areas on a screen.

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.

The Advanced LIGO experiment in the US, freshly revamped to boost its sensitivity, fires lasers through 4 kilometre - long tunnels and measures minute changes in the distance travelled by the beams.

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

Recording the energy of the electrons that passed through the pulse generates a crisp side - profile of the short laser beam, not unlike a sporting photo - finish image (see right).

In the other setting, the laser beams slide through and continue on their way towards the target chamber.

The energized atoms then emit photons as the weak laser pulse passes through the glass slabs, allowing the laser beam to pick up trillions of extra photons.

The surprisingly simple device is operated from a shed in a field near Chicago, and consists of two powerful laser beams that are directed through tubes 40 metres long.

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.

Accelerating electrons through a series of these cavities allows the generation of an almost continuous X-ray laser beam with pulses that are 10,000 times brighter, on average, than those of LCLS and arrive up to a million times per second.

But a laser can set up a quantum - mechanical interference that blocks the electrons from making the jump, allowing a second beam at the normally absorbed wavelength to zip through.

This is an illustration of an electron beam traveling through a niobium cavity — a key component of SLAC's future LCLS - II X-ray laser.

While another laser beam detected the exact location of the cell membrane, they pushed the particle through the pore with the tweezers.

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

As you can see, the laser beam burns right through the truck's hood, and then through the engine, «defeating» the vehicle.

A series of laser beams will run alongside all of the telescope's elements and into detectors, which will sense any vibrations the shock absorbers let through.

But in this case, they first sent the beam through a special spiral - shaped grating, which shaped the laser beam in such a way that if you looked at it in cross-section, it would consist of concentric rings.

One way would have been to use an inflow of gaseous fluoride to coat the surface of the KMgF3 thin film, but instead the team discovered a safer route to fabricating it with pulsed laser deposition — a way of layering thin films of chemicals onto surfaces through irradiation with a focused laser beam.

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.

The beam passed through a chamber where a laser knocked the extra electrons off of about 7 % of the ions, leaving a mix of hydrogen and negatively charged hydrogen ions to react with each other farther down the tube.

To break this limit in crystal size, an extremely bright X-ray beam was needed, which was obtained using a so - called free - electron laser (FEL), in which a beam of high - speed electrons is guided through a magnetic undulator causing them to emit laser - like X-ray pulses.

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.

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.

Laser beams shoot through an ultrahigh vacuum tunnel in each arm.

But the cloak worked to perfection: Because the laser passed through the unlit gap, the color of the beam didn't change.

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 laser is focused through a lens with imperfections, such that the resulting beam has pockets of darkness that can act as a trap.

Once created, each entangled pair of photons is separated by passing a laser beam made up of them through a filter made from a non-linear crystal.

They are now waiting for a new generation of giant interferometers that measure the time it takes a laser beam to travel through vacuum tubes several kilometres long.

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

Scientists and laser experts have maintained that this superbeam could never work due to the properties of lasers — theory says that rather than converging and combining their energy, the beams would just pass through one another.