An incredible tool to teach and illustrate the amazing properties of light!
A beam splitter is a high-precision tool used in experimental laboratories. It’s a glass cube made of several precision constructed right-angle prisms that will split a single beam of light into multiple beams. Try differently colored beams of light, such as a laser pen! You can’t do this with a standard prism.
This specific type of beam splitter is also called an “x-cube” and can also split a beam of white light into different regions of the spectra. Try shining a light, such as a cell phone flash light, through one of the faces and see the different colors that make up the white light spill out the other sides. Again, the patterns and displays are very different from a standard prism.
