His windows face south, and through the murky light of a damp late afternoon the towers of Wall Street were barely visible.
As it happens, the coffee-like stains that he and his colleagues had been trying to remove with fast-drying solvents was actually the solution to his problem, since they remained in contact with each other as they dried and preserved conductivity, but left about 95 percent of the light through the holes in the center, thereby making the screen itself almost fully transparent.
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To let in so much light through the splitters requires processing the light in four mixed colors, and that processing requires studying the light's behavior in 3D.
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The only light in the room was street light seeping in through the blinds, and a rose-colored hue from the digital clock by the bed.
"It means there is more light penetrating through the ice - that depends to a high degree on the snow cover but once it has melted the light can get through, " Dr Gerland said.
The secret is in the imaging chip that records the light coming through the lens.
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The more that the light passing through the sample is slowed down, however, the more the two beams will be out of phase.
It was late in the afternoon, the sun just going down over the fields, the last of the light filtering through the trees and shrubs along the road by the old hospital.
When he got to the color, the blue on blue night scene set the stage and the slash of candle light through the window indicates that there are secrets to be had here.
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The reason astronomers want to observe reflected sunlight during the transit of Venus is to test whether they can detect the faint imprint of passage of the sun's light through the atmosphere of Venus.
By firing co-ordinated beams of laser light through the BEC, Hau and colleagues have slowed light down to a crawl.
In the gauzy light filtering through the canopy, the water, which was only a foot deep, looked crystalline.
To observe such a distant, faint object, scientists had to collect light through the telescopes over 37 hours, letting more and more light accumulate to see as deep as possible.
In the middle of the night, he swore he saw a light through the hole.
The flash itself is actually a second image of the sun, caused by refraction of its light through the layer of air closest to the sea.
His device will reportedly stream damp air containing microscopic water particles through a tube, while a laser diode beams light through the vessel onto a sensor located on the opposite side.
My wife looked round and said 'I think we've just walked through the tunnel of light'.
Mr. Konesky tiptoed toward Mr. Dennehy's bedroom, burst through the door and flipped on the light.
Damage to the region appeared light through most of the journey.
Consider: Your first match is set aboard a spacecraft travelling through the cosmos at the speed of light Run past one of the ship's many windows and you'll see stars whizzing by outside.
In addition, since a single electron travelling through the device emits light not once (as in most other lasers), but many times, quantum cascade lasers are powerful: Dr Capasso's group has recently shown that they beat conventional semiconductor lasers by a factor of 20.
Structured like a tree, the new centre will have a huge canopy letting in light through the roof.
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The GMC is considering information in seven other cases that have come to light through the confidential phone line.
As the sun went down, light shot through the smoke and turned the air around us a dark gold that cast an unsettling radiance on the trees and houses.
"It's not something subtle here, it's a major effect on the way the retina develops that requires light going through the body, " said Prof Richard Lang, from Cincinnati Children's Hospital.
The 26.2 mile route starts and ends at the Stadium of Light, goes through the city centre and around Roker, taking in some of the city's landmarks.
For now, the corner studio with lots of natural light pouring through the windows is a backstage area for hair and makeup.
The flashing lights are likely to leave you feeling disorientated, so as you walk back through the exhibition to exit into the natural light, it is likely you will start to see things differently.
Opened in April 2012 to mark the centenary, the new Alpine Sensation, a 250m journey of discovery, whizzes through the history of the Jungfraubahn railway with light and sound effects, projected photos and a giant snowglobe.
She began to fill her lectures with tales of her out-of-the body experiences, including travelling through space at the speed of light.
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