Alberg backs Terabeam, which uses laser beams to zap data from one building to another.
All-optical switches use micromirrors, which were originally developed to bounce laser beams around the surface of a silicon chip.
The researchers plan to solve this problem by using two laser beams focused through the same array of microlenses.
Stereolithography works by steering laser beams through a photosensitive liquid that solidifies when it is exposed to enough light.
At Oxford University, meanwhile, Andrew Turberfield and Bob Denning are using crossed laser beams to create so-called photonic crystals.
The camera works in conjunction with laser beams mounted in the headlamp unit.
Cable-climbing robots, powered by laser beams shot upward from the ground, or downward from space, would take payloads to orbit.
Unfortunately, a passing gravitational wave will make only a tiny change in the distance the laser beams have to travel.
This will be done using laser beams, which will zip between the satellites and form fringes in the same way as starlight.
Moreover, engineers have worked out how to make laser beams more intense by using short lengths of optical fibre to narrow the beam.
Because laser beams can run for long distances, the fuel does not have to be right next to the lasers that generate them.
He has also made molds for NASA and is working with the U.S. Defense Department to make small parabolic antennae for reflecting laser beams.
This technique makes three-dimensional images from the interference patterns of two laser beams used to scan an object in this case a sample of handwriting.
Two passenger planes - one over Exeter, Devon, and one at Newquay, Cornwall - had laser beams shone into their cockpits on Friday night.
The Omega product page did not specify whether the new Seamaster fired laser beams or if its crown could be used as a grappling hook.
When the polariton flow was excited with two laser beams, the quantum fluid began to oscillate backwards and forwards in ways predicted by quantum mechanics.
The new technique relies on using precision laser beams to "kick" antihydrogen atoms, knocking loose a bit of energy from them and cooling them down.
Four laser beams are shone into this block from different directions.
One is an adaptation of a well-known effect called "optical tweezers" in which objects can be trapped in the focus of one or two laser beams.
The experimenters discovered that adding additional laser beams to fire at the quantum fluid, they could create ever more complicated quantum states, right before their eyes.
With the French star Vincent Cassell, who, evading some laser beams, does a cross between gymnastics and Tai Chi Chuan, and, in general, performs with professional skill.
Blowing cigarette smoke determines the positions of otherwise invisible alarm-triggering laser beams, and a handy radar shows the positions of nearby guards, and the direction they are looking in.
Meanwhile a team of Swiss researchers are harnessing rays of light for an entirely different purpose -- they've figured out a way to create rain clouds by shooting laser beams into the sky.
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 remaining profitable lines range from binoculars and spectacles 40, 000 lenses a day are made at Aalen, near Oberkochen to monster combinations of quartz lenses, taking months to make, assemble and calibrate, that focus laser beams etching ultra-fine patterns on to semiconductors.
The laser beams on the Tele Atlas vans scan each building on the road thousands of times, creating a three-dimensional model of the neighborhood that, when matched to photos from the high-resolution cameras, can be used to re-create a realistic cityscape.
Another lesson of the early friction between Blue and Red was that the Pentagon should prepare plans for what to do if it picks up indications that an adversary is getting ready to shoot blinding laser beams at commercial satellites operated by U.S. firms.
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In 2011, researchers from China and Hong Kong showed how it might be done with laser beams of a specific shape - and the US space agency Nasa has even funded a study to examine how the technique might help with manipulating samples in space.
To calculate this, the team took data from patches of forest studied on the ground, in which every tree's diameter has been recorded, and combined them with images from MODIS and with data from an instrument called GLAS, which bounced laser beams off the Earth's surface between 2003 and 2009.
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