lasers
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Watch This Reflected Laser Pulse’s Entire Flight Path At 20 Billion FPS
The technology available to image light as it moves through space continues to advance. Recently, we saw a new high-speed camera capture a small pulse reflected from a mirror; now, it’s possible to image the entire flight path of a laser as it bounces around a laboratory.
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Monster Machines: This Tabletop Gadget Steers Light With A Wall Of Sound
Our collective Holodeck-Danger Room fantasies are one step closer to reality thanks to a new acousto-optic device described in the latest issue of the journal Optics Express. It can manipulate laser beams in near real time using nothing but sound waves.
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A Real-Life Laser Tri-Blade Lightsaber Is The Best Worst Idea
A Wicked Lasers product has long been the closest you can get to a real-life lightsaber, but there are some Jedi weapons better left on the screen. If the tri-blade lightsaber revealed in the Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser has caught your eye, and safety isn’t your utmost concern, with the help of a…
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This High-Speed Camera Tracks Light Bouncing Off A Mirror At 100 Billion FPS
Slow-motion photography is cool and all, but now a team of scientists has decided to use high-speed photography to track light as it travels through space. In this GIF, you’re looking at a pulse of light hitting and bouncing off of a mirror. Really.