Collimator Dwarfed by Penny (IMAGE)

Georgia Institute of Technology

Collimator Dwarfed by Penny

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The collimator next to a penny. The tiny slit on the side contains the more than a dozen channels the excited atoms enter through. The big gaps on top separate the three phases of the exactly aligned collimator cascade.

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Georgia Tech / Christopher Moore

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