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One way to create a fiber beam splitter is to take two fibers and fusion-combine them.

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Quick take

a signal transmitted along a narrow path; guides airplane pilots in darkness or bad weather

Meaning at a glance

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noun

a signal transmitted along a narrow path; guides airplane pilots in darkness or bad weather

noun

long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction

noun

a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for beam.

noun

a signal transmitted along a narrow path; guides airplane pilots in darkness or bad weather

noun

long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction

noun

a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation

noun

a column of light (as from a beacon)

noun

(nautical) breadth amidships

noun

the broad side of a ship; "they sighted land on the port beam"

noun

a gymnastic apparatus used by women gymnasts

verb

smile radiantly; express joy through one's facial expression

verb

emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light; "The sun shone bright that day"; "The fire beamed on their faces"

verb

express with a beaming face or smile; "he beamed his approval"

verb

broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television; "We cannot air this X-rated song"

See also: air, send, broadcast, transmit

verb

have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink; "Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna"

verb

experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion; "She was beaming with joy"; "Her face radiated with happiness"

Example sentences

One way to create a fiber beam splitter is to take two fibers and fusion-combine them.

-Muse is an experiment which will scatter a combined electron and muon beam from protons.

To get more on screen, you have to reposition a hardware sprite in the middle of each TV frame while the electron beam is drawing it.

Heinze's team then halted a second beam that entered the crystal by switching off the first laser and hence the transparency.

As the beam travels, it is bounced into a lens with a mirror, or on the inside of a plastic conduit or holographic waveguide.

The power of FM radio stations was also cut, meaning FM could no longer be used to beam programs from one part of the country to another.

Naturally, the NSA doesn't want repair crews finding their tap-in points!So how do you turn a piece of fiber into a beam-splitter without cutting and splicing?

These lights focus their beam where it is needed, projecting light directly towards the eyes of motorists, rather than bouncing it off the ground for no clear reason.

A beam splitter probabilistically reroutes photons from the data stream down a different fiber.

I'm actually a bit curious about this myself...If you want to tap a classical signal traveling down a fiber, you want to turn that fiber into a beam splitter.

This seems to me a bit like saying we could never have a flat tablet computer because its impossible to have a perfectly flat crt that's thin enough what with the magnetic yoke, the electron beam, shadow mask etc."Breakthrough" is used much too often these days.

"Influencers" who liked Google Reader, now jilted, are going to use their magic influence beam to halt the growth of Android, to erode the dominance of Google in search, and prevent the regulatory approval of self-driving cars?Google has quite a few heavy responsibilities on their hands.