Brightness Wave -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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Brightness Wave

When a modulated laser beam is sent through a cloudy liquid, a chain of dark and light patches results which acts like an ordinary wave with a characteristic wavelength.




References

"Brightness Waves in Cloudy Liquids." Sci. News 142, 398, 1992.



© 1996-2007 Eric W. Weisstein

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