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beam splitter
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beam splitter
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(Physics / General Physics) a system that divides a beam of light, electrons, etc., into two or more paths


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When a beam of light traveled from a source of coherent light to the half-silvered mirror (the semitransparent mirror) it is transmitted to either of the horizontal or vertical mirrors.
He showed pictures of his macrostereo creation using two Nikonos V cameras and a unit with a half-silvered mirror.
The Maryland experiment and one of the Garching experiments involve Mach-Zehnder interferometers, devices that take an incoming light pulse from a laser, split it in two with a half-silvered mirror, send the two halves over different paths and recombine them.
 
 
 
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