Figure 3

Photographs of the broken wire filaments. (a) A picture of the focal plane of the 13 beams, aligned to a distance of 2 m from the optical setup. An image of the beam profile during the experiment, (b) after the optical setup, and (c) at a distance of 1 m from it. (d) A picture of the Broken Wire, taken ~12 meters from the optical setup during the experiment.