The Samsung projector casts 50 lumens, a small amount of light but enough to work effectively at short ranges.
The roof is black, like an eternal night, though a small amount of light falls from a single diagonal opening.
They had a small amount of light, but it was a hot and humid 29C (84F) in their bunker.
So the device was designed to let a small amount of light, called the evanescent tail, sneak back into the indium phosphide, where it was amplified.
On the back wall of the eye, the tapetum lucidum reflects incoming light, thus utilizing the small amount of light available at night to best advantage.
The function of the optical detector is to efficiently convert the small amount of light energy received from the fiber, as photons, into electrical signals.
Balagovindan also spoke with me, and he recalled his first glimpse of the treasure: "When they removed the granite stone, it was almost perfectly dark, except for a small amount of light coming in through the doorway behind us.
Linda Morfoot, 64, living in Long Beach, California, was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa at the age of 21 and was almost completely blind by the time she was 50, with only a small amount of light reception in her left eye.
One e-mail message shed a small amount of light on the suicide of Gary Berwick, a former top aide to the acting State Police superintendent who stepped down as the controversy intensified.
Although each pulse produces a very small amount of light, the light generated by tens of thousands of pulses per second is substantial when integrated by the human eye.
Keep in mind that after dark only a comparatively small amount of light is needed for eating or socializing - in most cases all you will want is a pleasant glow rather than a bright pool of light.
