A beam dump is a device designed to absorb the energy of photons or other particles within an energetic beam. Examples include absorption of laser emissions, and absorption of particles produced within particle accelerators.
Read more about Beam Dump: Optical Beam Dumps, Charged Particle Beam Dumps
Famous quotes containing the words beam and/or dump:
“Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 7:3.
From the Sermon on the Mount.
““... It’s a day’s work
To empty one house of all household goods
And fill another with ‘em fifteen miles away,
Although you do no more than dump them down.””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)