beam splitter
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of beam splitter
First recorded in 1930–35
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They can be made to do so with a beam splitter, a half-silvered mirror set at an angle that will, with equal probability, transmit a photon or deflect it by 90°.
From Science Magazine ● May 6, 2024
However, the light in one arm of the interferometer reflects off the surface of the beam splitter while the light in the other passes through it.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 15, 2021
The thought experiment involves putting two interferometers side by side, such that each particle first encounters a beam splitter.
From Scientific American ● May 6, 2019
A second beam splitter then recombines the waves, which interfere with each other to shunt the photon toward either one of a pair of detectors.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 27, 2017
Physicists using an interferometer, an experimental device that includes the beam splitter, toggled between combining the paths and leaving them separate.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 6, 2012
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