Sentences with phrase «send laser beams»

In their first experiment, the team sent a laser beam into a light - altering crystal on the satellite.

Not exact matches

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.

At the center of LIGO's equal - length, L - shaped arms sit a laser source and a device that splits the beam in two, sending the light racing toward mirrors at the end of each arm.

Transmitting readings from all those spacecraft would be difficult with radio signals, so the Telecommunications Orbiter will send information home via beams of laser light.

Next, the team split the laser beam, sending half round the front and half round the back of the atom.

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.

Milner and his scientific advisory team believe recent developments in lasers and nanotechnology should make it possible to send thousands of these probes to Alpha Centauri, where they could beam back pictures and scientific data on any planets in orbit.

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 system is reached by a lightsail beamed by a laser array, a concept not unfamiliar to today's Breakthrough Starshot (read the article by Avi Loeb), which envisions sending small sails by laser to Proxima Centauri.

The basic idea is to divide a laser beam in two using a device known as a beam splitter, and send the resulting beams down a pair of hollow tubes arranged at right angles to one another.

Laser beams are generated and sent down each of the tunnels, where they are reflected back and forth from mirrors, causing them to recombine at the initial start point.

A presidential reelection campaign of sending a black astronaut to the moon triggers a chain of events that ultimately brings the Nazis and allied Earth countries back to fighting one another — this time with more space battles and laser beams.

Laser beams send warm, penetrating light into the tissues to decrease inflammation and pain.