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A Tethered Miniature Lightsail to Measure the Force Exerted By a Laser Beam (IMAGE)
The ultimate goal of the lightsail project is to drive a freely accelerating lightsail that is 10 square meters in area and 100 nm or less in thickness. In this first experimental step, the Caltech ...
IFLScience14h
Levitation Ray Is Testing The Boundary Between The Quantum And Classical World
Tractor beams using light or sound have existed for a while. Lasers can be used to create optical tweezers, a development that got Arthur Ashkin a Nobel prize in 2018 – so it is possible to move and ...
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NASA Beams Cat Video 19 Million Miles Through Space Using Via A Laser
NASA tested laser communications from space with a video of a cat chasing a laser dot! Psyche beamed the video about 19 ...
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MKS Announces Ophir® BeamSquared® SP204S- PRO M2 Laser Beam Propagation Analyzer for High Precision Beam Caustic and Profiling in Production Environments
MKS Instruments, Inc., a global provider of enabling technologies that transform our world, has announced the Ophir® ...
Optical levitation traps nanospheres, revealing quantum-classical crossover
An article published in the journal Optica describes the development of a new experimental device that explores the boundary ...