In the researchers' new imaging system, a beam of infrared laser light is widely dispersed throughout a room.
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This generates the coherent light of a laser beam in the core of a long, thin optical fibre.
All businesses could benefit from this level of laser beam focus to write their own success story HB Surround Sound will be crushing the soundtrack.
That means the beam produced is of higher quality than other lasers, is extremely straight (even by the exacting standards of a normal laser beam) and can thus be focused onto a small area.
Holograms are interference patterns generated by the interaction of a blank reference laser beam with a second beam that has been reflected from an object of interest.
As the researchers report in a forthcoming issue of Physical Review Letters, they managed to hold significant numbers of isolated rubidium atoms in place by shining a laser beam on to an array of microscopic lenses.
LaserMotive uses special cells made with arsenic and gallium, which are better able to capture the near-infra-red wavelengths of its laser beam.
While the driving lights are the first use of a laser beam reflected off a mirror, the daytime running lamps, with their characteristic "torch" effect, and the indicator lights use LEDs.
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In the case of Dr Sweeney's fibre laser, the beam will have a wavelength of 1.5 microns, making it part of the infra-red spectrum.
Increases in defense spending will seriously diffuse, if not neutralize, the energy and effectiveness of the "laser beam" Mr. Clinton has promised to bring to bear on reinvigorating the national economy.
More modern versions of the tool add in a laser beam projector, which allows builders to level out the device and "draw" a long line of light across a wall, indicating an exactly level surface.
He had the entire traditional political press corps and mainstream media focused on him like a laser beam by utilizing one of the most old school tools available to a senator -- the filibuster.
And, just as light waves of the same frequency can be made to resonate in step with one another and so form a laser beam, it should be possible to make atoms of the same element resonate similarly.
In the case of lidar, the waves are in the form of an infra-red laser beam.
They have focused like a laser beam on the holy grail of compensation carried interest.
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Moments later, a laser beam carved the chiseled silhouette of a truck into another building, revealing the GMC Sierra concealed inside.
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In ablative (wounding) laser resurfacing, a laser beam destroys the outer layer of skin (epidermis) and heats the underlying skin (dermis), which stimulates the growth of new collagen fibers.
John McCain, the answer has been to pretty much ignore Iowa, and focus like a laser beam on the first primary state of New Hampshire.
The other two methods rely on specially shaped laser beams - instead of a beam whose intensity peaks at its centre and tails off gradually, the team is investigating two alternatives: solenoid beams and Bessel beams.
The laser beam in the scanner shoots a steady stream of photons, all of the same frequency, at the plastic.
The front headlamps of the Concept GLA are each fitted with a laser-beam projector.
ENGADGET: Mercedes-Benz GLA concept puts laser projectors in headlights, redefines SUV
The team of scientists blasted a Ytterbium atom suspended in air with a laser beam.
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Mobeam converts barcodes, coupons, loyalty cards and gift cards into a beam of light that can be read by every one of the estimated 165 million laser scanners in use today by retailers around the world.
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They placed a sample of each in a machine that shook them about, and focused a laser beam on each sample.
The new microturret fits on the stub wing of an Apache and other helicopters, tracking and jamming incoming missiles by laser beam.
The laser-beam projectors represent far more than simply an academic exercise on the part of the engineers and designers at Mercedes-Benz.
ENGADGET: Mercedes-Benz GLA concept puts laser projectors in headlights, redefines SUV
Moreover, engineers have worked out how to make laser beams more intense by using short lengths of optical fibre to narrow the beam.
In this, the stream of video and audio data is recorded as a series of minuscule spots on the disc's surface that have been gently fried by a laser beam and turned from their normal crystalline condition to an amorphous state that has different reflective properties.
It is not only the laser-beam projectors and their visible cooling system with rotating vents that make the shimmering blue headlamps of the Concept GLA such an interesting feature.
ENGADGET: Mercedes-Benz GLA concept puts laser projectors in headlights, redefines SUV
It transmits a laser beam through an optical cable to a robot, which angles lenses and mirrors in the end of its arm to aim the laser towards the parts that need welding.
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