The laser beam in the scanner shoots a steady stream of photons, all of the same frequency, at the plastic.
If a prototype due by December 2007 improves the laser beam director, it could get deployed alongside existing Phalanx systems within 12 months.
As long as there is a birds-eye view from one building to the next, the laser beam can transmit to and from a high-speed transmission center.
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
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.
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
This generates the coherent light of a laser beam in the core of a long, thin optical fibre.
Information about each layer is transmitted from the computer to a laser beam, which melts the PCL into a 3-D structure.
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.
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.
ENGADGET: Mercedes-Benz GLA concept puts laser projectors in headlights, redefines SUV
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.
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.
Now shine a tiny laser beam through the token, noting exactly where and at what angle you aimed the beam.
The data can then be read simply by scanning the disc with another laser beam.
The patent-pending technology uses a laser beam's energy to precisely transfer the ultra-thin chips.
Later that evening the police helicopter also had a laser beam shone on it, when it was sent to investigate the earlier incident.
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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.
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.
The famous face was used in an experiment and carried in a laser beam to a man-made satellite orbiting the moon, NASA said Thursday.
To activate the altered neurons, they usually use a laser tuned to the proper wavelength and pipe the beam through a fiber-optic cable implanted in the brain tissue.
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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.
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.
The new technology places glass optical fibers, which contain a laser diode that sends a signal beam into the optical, into the flutes.
In the case of lidar, the waves are in the form of an infra-red laser beam.
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.
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.
According to the automaker, laser lighting can produce a forward beam with an intensity a thousand times greater than conventional LEDs, but with half the energy consumption.
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
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