Photon Sieve (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Photon Sieve

Caption

A photon sieve's close-up reveals a crisp honeycomb pattern of the support structure, and in the central hexagon a circular arrangement of slits cut through the glass which gets smaller with each successive ring.

Credit

NASA / Christopher Gunn

Usage Restrictions

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License

Public Domain

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