Dr Lin is already testing a waveguide designed to steer light with a wavelength of 1.5 microns, and he is also working on three-dimensional waveguides made of silicon, which will provide almost total control over the path the light takes, and make really complex optical circuits possible.
They then removed some of the posts, creating a twisting path for the light to travel.
Despite the fact that it is probable that a black hole lurks at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy, astronomers still know very little about these celestial monsters which vacuum up almost everything in their path, even light.
Should Congress approve, such measures could light the path back to work for many jobless Americans.
The path for sending the light signal also makes it possible for delivering content.
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It can sense your location, so you can set your lights to turn on when you enter, turn off when you leave, or light your path as you walk down the hall, and so on.
Three miles on this path, with no light beyond the scope of our high beams, no moonlight, no starlight, just trees and a blackness so heavy that we both stopped talking and stretched our necks until our foreheads were almost touching the windshield, trying to make sense of the tarry vastness around us.
But their demonstration of dipole trapping at least shines a captivating light down the path to quantum computing becoming a practical technology.
If the city and its citizens are to see Detroit rise once again, they have an improving automotive industry shining a light on the path to progress.
This exploits one of the predictions of Einstein's general theory of relativity: that the path of a beam of light (which is a straight line in empty space) is bent inwards by the gravity of a massive object.
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Streaming out of the puncture, in a curved path with the water, came the light.
But if he makes his work sound deceptively simple, he makes the same light of his meteoric career path.
"From Einstein's theory of gravity, that is his general relativity theory, we believe mass curves space and this can cause light to follow a curved path, " he told BBC News Online.
The report merely repeats what it has said before - that "greater near-term flexibility in the path of fiscal adjustment should be considered in the light of lacklustre private demand".
This helps "recycle" any light rays which fail to travel the desired path.
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And since ultrasound travels in a tight line akin to laser light, the emergent tones are audible only in a narrow, cylindrical path from source to ear.
And under International Civil Aviation Organisation regulations, any structure over 45 metres tall on a flight path or near an aerodrome must be fitted with a medium-intensity aircraft warning light.
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This light is channelled down "beamlines" where it hits targets put in its path.
The idea that reading might lead wrongdoers back to the path of righteousness is deeply embedded in the system, and the right to read by adequate light is a legal stipulation.
Since the speed of light through a cable is consistent, the difference is entirely in the length of its path.
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