half-silvered

adjective

1. (of a mirror) having an incomplete reflective coating, so that half the incident light is reflected and half transmitted: used in optical instruments and two-way mirrors

Example Sentences

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°.

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The idea was to use face-tracking software to register movements of the user’s face and translate them into movements of another, digitally processed aspirational face — an image of Serena Williams, in Buolamwini’s early experimentation — and then project them onto a piece of half-silvered glass.

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For instance, if you shoot a photon at a half-silvered mirror, it might pass through, or it might reflect off, and there's no way you can tell what it will do.

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In the standard setup a half-silvered mirror steers a photon to either the left or the right fiber.

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Maiman's laser was simply a cylinder of artificial ruby about the size of a cigarette filter, half-silvered on both ends and nested in the spiral of a high-intensity flashbulb, all contained in an aluminium can no bigger than a flashlight battery.

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