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Message no. 1
From: Marc Renouf renouf@********.com
Subject: Laser Weirdness
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 09:32:30 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 14 May 1999, Robert Watkins wrote:

> If you shoot your laser through the latter, the effect would be much like
> shooting along the apex of a prism: part of the beam goes one way, the other
> part goes the other.

Yeah, or stranger yet a dichroic filter. If your laser is of wide
enough optical bandwidth, you can actually split it by wavelength, with
light of one end of the spectrum passing through and the other end being
reflected. This is one of the principles that makes Raman lidar feasible.

Marc

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