image: Photograph of the prototypical optical light field synthesizer. Beams are visualized by nitrogen vapor. This image relates to an article that appeared in the Sept. 8, 2011, issue of Science Express, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. A. Wirth of Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik in Garching, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "Synthesized Light Transients." view more
Credit: Image: Mohammed Th. Hassan