beam splitter
noun
: a mirror or prism or a combination of the two that is used to divide a beam of radiation into two or more parts
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The nodes and edges represented different aspects of an experiment, such as beam splitters, the paths of photons, or whether or not two photons had interacted.
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Quanta Magazine, 21 July 2025
Chris uses a cube beam splitter to create the laser light show announcing the Tanning Invitational pool party that incurs Hathaway's wrath.
—ArsTechnica, 2 Apr. 2025
The recording system uses a beam splitter to separate the different types of light.
—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2024
Physicists knew that this effect could be used to perform a single logical operation, or gate, on photons shot through a small maze of mirrors, beam splitters, and other optical elements.
—science.org, 10 June 2024
The light passes through a beam splitter while boosted by an accompanying input laser, and then travels through another mirror while refracted by the spectrometer.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 30 Nov. 2023
The necessary matrix multiplications can be done using three simple kinds of components: optical beam splitters, photodiodes, and capacitors.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 June 2019
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Quanta Magazine, 21 July 2025
Chris uses a cube beam splitter to create the laser light show announcing the Tanning Invitational pool party that incurs Hathaway's wrath.
—ArsTechnica, 2 Apr. 2025
The recording system uses a beam splitter to separate the different types of light.
—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2024
Physicists knew that this effect could be used to perform a single logical operation, or gate, on photons shot through a small maze of mirrors, beam splitters, and other optical elements.
—science.org, 10 June 2024
The light passes through a beam splitter while boosted by an accompanying input laser, and then travels through another mirror while refracted by the spectrometer.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 30 Nov. 2023
The necessary matrix multiplications can be done using three simple kinds of components: optical beam splitters, photodiodes, and capacitors.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 June 2019
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“Beam splitter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beam%20splitter. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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