The green laser beam thus behaves like an object, blocking the blue light and casting a dark line across the screen. RELATED STORIES — Next-gen quantum computers could be powered using chip with ...

In this experiment, the green laser beam raised the absorption rate of blue light in the ruby crystal. As a result, when the blue light exited the ruby, it produced a darker region where the green ...

The green light increases the absorption of the blue beam, creating a darker region that casts the shadow. The researchers measured a maximum contrast of around 22 percent, roughly the equivalent ...

The green laser increases the optical absorption of the blue illuminating laser beam, creating a matching region in the illuminating light and creating a darker area that appears as a shadow of ...

By modifying the optical properties of ruby, the green laser acted like a physical object, while the blue laser served as illumination. The team observed that the laser shadow shared many ...

They found that the shadow's darkness increased proportionally with the power of the green laser beam, reaching a maximum contrast of 22% - comparable to a typical shadow on a sunny day.

After discussing the quirks in 3D modeling software, where a laser beam is treated as a solid object that can cast a shadow, scientists decided to experiment in real life — and found that laser ...

The laser shadow effect is a consequence of optical nonlinear absorption in the ruby. The effect occurs because the green laser increases the optical absorption of the blue illuminating laser beam, ...