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Article: The incredible lightness of beams; Photonics - where particles of light have the potential to carry morethan 100 times the information of the electrons that run electronicdevices.(Features)(Ideas)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- November 4, 1999
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When the Federal Bureau of Investigation Laboratories wanted to find out whether O.J. Simpson really did own a pair of Bruno Magli shoes, it used some special techniques with light to see what was not otherwise visible to the human eye. Using red light to look at the now famous photos of the football star on the Buffalo Bills' football field, FBI researchers were able to see the tread of the soles clearly, and match it to the Italian shoemaker.
"We were able to compare the tread with the manufacturer's samples to confirm that it was a Bruno Magli," said Donald Kerr, director of the FBI Labs in Washington, D.C., at a recent Boston University symposium on new uses ...