Curved laser beams

[millirad]

Using Airy beams researchers are able to produce curved laser beams.......

Curved light bends the rules (Photonics Spectra | Sep 2010 | Tech News)

 

[532 with Envy]

Now that is some cool stuff!

Happy New Year!:beer:

(just an edit)
Thats a pretty good site, some of it is out of my range, but this is a fun article...

http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=45242

 

[Prototype]

Pfffft, these guys are behind the times, pwnstar has been doing this for a long time, but he had to use an external aid.

Cool article nonetheless.

 

[TTerbo]

Pfffft, these guys are behind the times, pwnstar has been doing this for a long time, but he had to use an external aid.

Cool article nonetheless.

that doesnt work

i have tried it

 

[532 with Envy]

that doesnt work

i have tried it

Try a larger fan.

 

[TTerbo]

dont get much bigger than this

 

[HIMNL9]

Try this one

(if you want a scale reference, the middle balcony between the two rows is a walking path, and at the bottom of the number 3, you can see 3 peoples )

 

[HIMNL9]

Damn image caches ..... does it show up now ?

 

[TTerbo]

yeah that works, but all i can see are 6 massive fans?

 

[HIMNL9]

"massive" does not give you the right idea ..... at least til you don't notice the 3 workers

(LOL)

 

[millirad]

Yes, very nice fans indeed! Well another pic of the Airy curved beam laser. Maybe some Viagra could help it perhaps ? :eg: ......................

 

[LazyBeam]

I know with TONS of magnetic fields you slightly bend EM beams.
I think this is how they bend the Xray laser.

And massive gravitational lenses can bend light as well.

 

[Bluefan]

You can use a grazing incidence mirror for xray, but can you give more information about how to bend an electromagnetic wave with a magnetic field? Sounds impossible. Gravity works but a planet has a focal length of a huge number of lightyears.

 

[LazyBeam]

Aww, crap... i misremembered the video I saw. The x-ray laser used alternating magnets to stimulate electrons into making coherent xrays.
But ultimately only the electron beam itself (obviously) is affacted by the magnetic fields. The Xrays are not afected. sorry.

YouTube - LCLS: The World's Most Powerful X-ray Laser

 

[Tux]

This kinda reminds me of the Philadelphia experiment, didn't they try to bend light around a boat using a powerful electromagnetic field. Whether the experiment is true or not, Einstein's unified field theory was behind it. Just thought I'd throw that in there.

Invisibility cloaks here we come.