That information leaves the phone traveling as a light beam moving through fiber optic networks.
This technology relies upon a light beam that is shot at an angle through a sensing chamber to a receptor.
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His quest began in 1895, when as a 16-year-old he imagined what it would be like to ride alongside a light beam.
Operators can also hold the switch down to run the flashlight in low mode, producing a 50 lumen light beam and a longer 12 hour runtime.
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By pressing the switch once, the light operates in high mode to produce a full power 130 lumen light beam with a long 4 hour runtime.
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Lasers use a light beam to cut away tooth decay before filling cavities, resulting in less vibration and pain than traditional drills, says Barry Jacobson, a pediatric dentist at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York.
Last year, OPERA measured that neutrinos were making the 454-mile (730-kilometer) underground trip between the two labs more speedily than light, arriving there 60 nanoseconds earlier than a beam of light would.
"Einstein Tomb, " Woods mischievously submitted, would be transported throughout the heavens on a beam of light.
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Is the best beam of light one by a window, or encircling a bed?
This generates the coherent light of a laser beam in the core of a long, thin optical fibre.
Channelling Grace Kelly, she inhabits the stage like a beam of light, rendering everyone else as hapless and transfixed as moths.
An optical mouse uses a beam of light and an optical sensor to detect movement over a surface -- there are no moving parts.
' and he said 'I imagine myself sitting on a beam of light and travelling through space and I said now what will I see?
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To measure the refractive indices of different parts of a cell they use a technique called interferometry, which involves splitting a beam of light in two.
But Dr Zheludev has found that a similar effect can be achieved by keeping the temperature stable and using a beam of light to manipulate gallium's metallic nature.
The liquid acts as an additional lens, narrowing the beam of light just as a telescope turns what looks to the naked eye like a smudge on the horizon into a crisp image.
When a beam of light is focused by the cornea and the lens, at the front of the eye, on to the retina, at the back, it stimulates photosensitive cells known as rods and cones.
Mobeam converts barcodes, coupons, loyalty cards and gift cards into a beam of light that can be read by every one of the estimated 165 million laser scanners in use today by retailers around the world.
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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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Optical correlators, meanwhile, work by encoding images on to a beam of light and, using a special lens, transforming them into their Fourier components building-blocks that encode the thickness and direction of lines in the image, but not their position.
At dawn, he could see that but for the roadside oaks everything was gone, burned off the face of the earth as if by a powerful beam of light, the house standing naked and singed in a field of white ash.
The computer-operated system also allowed street lighting to be increased when needed and reduced when not, and the lights directed their beam downwards cutting light pollution, he added.
In the researchers' new imaging system, a beam of infrared laser light is widely dispersed throughout a room.
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He was affectionately called the Prince of Darkness by some, but the light from his horn will undoubtedly beam throughout the ages.
In a process similar to printing a photograph, engineers beam high-powered light through a mask-like image of the chip, creating a duplicate on a silicon wafer.
In a process similar to printing a photograph, engineers beam high-powered light through a masklike image of the chip, thus creating a duplicate on a silicon wafer.
Ram's heavy duty 2500 and 3500 models come with a rear-facing camera built into the center-mounted brake light behind the cab that can beam images of a trailer or the cargo in the bed into the truck's dashboard screen.
The light source is polarized by a Polarized Beam Splitter and reflects off of each of the chips.
We recently saw research that suggested negative radiation pressure in light could lead to a practical tractor beam.
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Designing them to light up an entire room or shine a beam over a long distance is far more technically challenging and requires higher production costs.
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