Manufacturing a precision surface requires a balance between satisfying the optimum quality requirements at the minimum cost. Steve Martinek summarizes the challenges of increasing the precision ...
The GRAVITY instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) has made the first direct observation of an exoplanet using optical interferometry. This method revealed a complex ...
The ESO (European Southern Observatory) has announced the successful observation of an exoplanet using optical interferometry. It's the first time an exoplanet has been "seen" in this manner and the ...
Interferometers, devices that can modulate aspects of light, play the important role of modulating and switching light signals in fiber-optic communications networks and are frequently used for gas ...
Large-scale atom interferometers, analogous to optical interferometers but measuring the difference in phase between atomic matter waves on different paths, are intended to be key elements in future ...
A Fast and High-precision Alignment Method for IFU Based on Optical Interferometry and Fresnel Diffraction Anzhi Wang1, Jiabin Wang1, Xingyu Yang1, Shengjia Wang1, Yunxiang Yan1,2 , Qi Yan1,3, ...
A single atom as a movable slit: Researchers realize Einstein's thought experiment in original form, observing ...
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