I-mod pixels (the dots that make up the display) are tiny paired mirrors, and the distance between these mirrors can be adjusted to one of four settings.

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That happens because, provided those electrons that have given off light are quickly pumped back to their excited states, the light bouncing around between the mirrors will stimulate the production of yet more light and a powerful, coherent beam will emerge.

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Dr Haroche trapped his photons by getting them to bounce back and forth between two tiny superconducting mirrors.

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It too closely mirrors the fine line between normalcy and what life looks like the minute everything falls apart.

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The competition between Wales and England for the event mirrors their rivalry on the field in the 2012 European Championship qualifying tournament with the senior teams due to play their Group G matches next year in Cardiff on 26 March and at Wembley on 6 September.

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Hood-mounted mirrors have been relocated, the space between the cab and trailer narrowed, and perforated mud flaps tested.

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The second and third projects are both pairs of telescopes. (Nobody now seems so unambitious as to build them one at a time.) These projects use competing methods to build their mirrors, so there is some rivalry between them.

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In order to demonstrate to Monica that all was well between us, that nothing had changed, that I was no slave to mirrors, I proposed a Saturday picnic.

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Ms. Lu's school in Shenyang, Northeast Yucai, mirrors a well-funded college campus in the U.S., with a large square in between its many buildings.

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