Janelle Shane

The view inside one of our lab’s titanium sapphire infrared lasers - if you see a view like this, you’re doing something wrong. Specifically, you’re not wearing laser goggles around a 10W laser source (bad), and placing your eyeballs at beam height (very bad, yet done almost

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Traffic looks like fireworks when viewed through diffraction glasses. You can pick up diffraction glasses for pretty cheap online - they’re popular as a trippy party effect. But you can also think of them as giving you the superpower of spectrometer vision, the ability to tell apart different kinds

The microscopic fractured edge of a piece of semiconductor looms like an enormous cliff face. However, this entire view would fit easily inside the diameter of a single human hair. At the top of the cliff is a rough dark layer, the remains of a protective layer that we bombarded

This is what an ordinary coffee shop looks like through diffraction glasses, which act like prisms to separate white light into a rainbow of colors. In this shot, you can see that not all white sources are alike - a few of them produce a continuous rainbow of colors, while