laser beams
Coherent light rays
Laser beams are concentrated streams of coherent light, produced by devices that amplify light through stimulated emission.
The beam stays narrow over distance, making lasers useful for cutting, measuring, pointing, and communication.
In science fiction and popular culture, laser beams appear as visible rays of destructive energy: The spaceship's laser beams sliced through the enemy hull.
Real laser beams are often invisible to the naked eye.
- collimatedMade into parallel beams
- coherentLogically connected throughout
- opticsScience of illumination
- monochromaticOf one hue
- lightVisible electromagnetic radiation
wavelength · holography · photonics · Star Wars · death ray · James Bond villain · intense · diffraction · show · blinding · cutting · sci-fi · pulse · burning · red · focused · pointer · precision
- Light Artlight sculpture, light installation, light installations, light painting, light art
- SFXCGI, VFX, visual effects, compositing, green screen
- classic sci-fiAsimov, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Clarke, Ray Bradbury
- Sci-Fi Artconcept art, alien landscapes, cyberpunk, retrofuturism, space opera
- movie mythshacking, enhance, silencers, chloroform, defibrillators
- TomorrowlandSpace Mountain, Buzz Lightyear, rocket ships, space suits, space stations
laser beamsdiffuse light
Light spread evenly, not direct
scattered light · ambient light · white light · sunlight · incandescent light
laser beamstorchlight
Illumination from burning brand
firelight · candlelight · oil lamp · bonfire · campfire
laser beamsexplosions
Violent, rapid expansions
shotgun blast · carpet bombing · blunt force · shrapnel · flamethrower