Sentences with phrase «of light waves»

We're able to see different colors because of our retina's innate ability to differentiate frequencies of light waves.

These electrons act as a kind of sensor that enables the researchers to interpret the exact form of the light wave.

A lens is a device — usually made of glass — that can change the direction of light waves.

These insights into fundamental physics will particularly profit further research into new radiation sources and in the field of light wave electronics.

A body's complex environment inhibits most of the light waves from reaching the target (green waves), whereas information about the target is presented in the red and blue waves.

For years, scientists have been trying to tune the shape of light waves so as to, for instance, steer an electron on exactly the right path.

As a first step, we may test this technology with sound instead of light waves.

Since then, the frequency and power of these light waves has accelerated greatly.

But it makes little sense to tackle the physics of light waves.

If all goes well, the shape of the light wave at the end will allow the team to calculate the sun's infrared spectrum.

The changes to and propagation of light waves in an electrical field take place on a time scale of a few hundred attoseconds — in other words, within one billionth of a billionth of a second.

In order to test whether the two - dimensional propagation of light waves along a one - atom - thick carbon layer follow the laws of conventional optics, the researchers tried to focus and refract the waves.

The trigger pulses contained only one or two oscillations of a light wave so that they packed a compact energy punch when they reached the neon cloud.

The length of the light wave which our eyes can perceive lies within a short range on either side of a fifty - thousandth of an inch.

How much the crests of a light wave slow down in a material is expressed as a ratio called the refraction index — the higher the index, the more the material interferes with the propagation of the wave crests of light.

Due to the unique characteristics of the liquid fiber core, the light pulse is broken up into solitons — a multitude of light waves with different wavelengths.

Because these spheres are the size of light waves, they diffract light in rainbow colors.

By varying the length and orientation of the rods, the researchers were able to record data based on the three dimensions of space, plus polarization (the orientation of light waves) and color.

The researchers exploited the light's wavelength, the distance between successive peaks of the light wave.

Greenness as a color is brought into being out of light waves by the eyes and brain.

Next, a red, green and blue LEDs illuminated the plastic, recreating the phase, direction and amplitude of light waves reflected off the original object and forming a colour 3D holographic replica.

It was a perfect test case: The «foamy» texture of space - time was expected to slightly alter the speed of light waves as they traveled across such a vast distance.

When the lack of an ether was demonstrated, the idea of light waves became essentially unintelligible, but the language was retained because the mathematics developed for the analysis of wave motion was useful also for some features of light.

A mechanistic physiologist analyses my sitting at my word processor in terms of light waves hitting my retina from the keyboard and the screen which then set in train chemical and electrical processes in my nerves and brain.

Waves that emanate from a source moving away from you are stretched by the time they reach you — lowering the pitch of sound waves and shifting the color of light waves toward the longer wavelength, or red, end of the spectrum.

Humans generally can't perceive light polarization, the parallel alignment of light waves, but many fish can.

In 1930, physicists Werner Heisenberg and Hans Heinrich Euler predicted that very strong magnetic fields could change the polarity of light waves in a vacuum (where polarity refers to the orientation of the light's electric and magnetic fields).

The direction of the oscillation is of major importance for the behavior of the light wave.

Once created, a hologram can be illuminated to create a pattern of light waves that replicates the light reflected by the original object, generating a 3D image without the need for special glasses.

Electromagnetically induced transparency, however, reveals the increased refractive index, and the resulting slowdown of the light waves.

In the same way, it is important for researchers to know how and where the maximum of a light wave will strike electrons in an experiment or application in order to have a targeted influence on them.

For this reason, only a small fraction of light waves propagating inside biological tissues can actually reach the desired target, while the majority is scattered and randomly diffused.

Prum concluded that the blue color of cotinga feathers occurs because of light waves interfering with one another — not because the bubbles are scattering light independently, each producing the color blue.

«Brillouin - Mandelstam scattering, originally discovered in the early 1920s, is the coupling of light waves and sound waves through electrostrictive optical forces and acousto - optic scattering.

After exposure to the deactivating light, only molecules at the darkest regions of the light wave continue to fluoresce.

O'Brien and Suchowski have compared the emission of light waves throughout their zero - index metamaterial to that of positive - and negative - index materials by drawing an analogy with the generation of water waves from rocks dropped in a pond.

But the descriptions were inadequate and could not explain, for example, the fundamental differences between light radiating from a lightbulb (which contains a mixture of light wave frequencies and phases) and light beaming from a laser (which has a specific frequency and phase).

The researchers then visualized the velocity of the two liquids using a technique called Laser Doppler Velocimetry, which detects changes in the frequency of light waves when a laser beam hits them.

For example, a metamaterial invisibility cloak would bend the paths of light waves around a cloaked object, accelerating them on their way, and reunite them on the other side.

It is only within the last year, with the advent of the optical maser, that it has been possible to attain precise control of the generation of light waves.

But soon Augustin Jean Fresnel in France worked out the math of light waves in detail.

By scattering light, the material slows down the effective propagation speed of the light waves through the medium.

A vertical lattice of light waves is created using an infrared laser beam that spans and traps the atom cloud.

During the course of the laser pulse, the electric field of the light wave oscillates about a dozen times.

«We can calculate how much time the transmitted part and the reflected part of the light wave spend inside the glass, respectively.

The stretching of the light waves makes the light from galaxies appear redshifted, mimicking a redshift from the doppler effect as if the galaxies were moving through space away from us.

So the selective absorption of light by a particular material occurs because the selected frequency of the light wave matches the frequency at which electrons in the atoms of that material vibrate.