IN CHERNOBYL, the new HBO and Sky Atlantic drama, an eerie beam of blue light appears moments after the nuclear disaster – but was the Chernobyl beam of light real?

Figure 2b shows a high-resolution grayscale image with 1300 × 1300 pixels, which is to be hidden in the optical beam. The resultant beam has a dimension of 390 × 390 μm because each pixel has a ...

Description. The purpose of this report is to update findings of the International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group’s Summary Report on the Post-Accident Review Meeting on the Chernobyl Accident (INSAG-1 ...

A surprising trick that allows a beam of light to be completely absorbed even in the thinnest of layers: Using mirrors and lenses, a 'light trap' can be constructed, in which the light beam is ...

Virtually every optical system relies on control over light propagation by modifying the phase or intensity across a beam of light. Lenses, prisms, gratings and transformation optics devices 1 ...