beam splitter

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beam
noun[C]
uk
/biːm/us
/biːm/
a line of light that shines from a ...
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Therefore, location of the target is not critical with respect to the outputbeamsplitter.
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Thebeamsplitterdivides the beam into two nonequal legs.
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Abeamsplitterdivides the beam into two nonequal legs.
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The laser pulse coming into the vacuum chamber is divided into the main pulse and the pump pulse in a ratio of nine to one by thebeamsplitter.
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The relative probabilities of transmission and reflection are determined by the reflectivity of thebeamsplitter.
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A collimated beam of monochromatic light illuminates the two flats, and abeamsplitterallows the fringes to be viewed on-axis.
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It consists of abeamsplitterand varying the distance between the specimen surface and the image of the reference mirror creates interference fringes.
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These then hit abeamsplitter, which sends photons back to the barium borate crystal with 50% probability.
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The prism can therefore be used as a polarizingbeamsplitter.
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This linear polarized light is reflected by abeamsplittertowards the objective, which focuses the light on the specimen.
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Abeamsplitterseparates the light into reference and measurement beams.
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Epi-illumination with narrow band green light (546 nm) and a dichroicbeamsplitterfor reflecting green light.
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Abeamsplitterdivides the laser light into two paths, one of which has a phase modulator as described above.
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Beginning in the 1960s, thin film stretched on a metal frame, also known as a pellicle, was used as abeamsplitterfor optical instruments.
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The effect occurs when two identical single-photon waves enter a 50:50beamsplitter, one in each input port.
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A half-wave plate followed by a polarizingbeamsplitterform a variable attenuator and this combination is often used in optical systems.
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At thebeamsplitterthe source light is split into a reference path (reflected) and a sampling path (transmitted onto the sample).
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