LEGO! It’s a fun toy that is popular around the world. What you may not realize is that it’s also made to incredibly high standards. As it turns out, the humble building blocks are good enough to ...

ABSTRACT.A scheme to optimally design a beam combiner is discussed for any predetermined fixed geometry nulling interferometer aimed at detection and characterization of exoplanets with multiple ...

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 122, No. 893 (2010 July), pp. 795-807 (13 pages) ABSTRACT.The paper describes the measurement and control algorithms of the near-infrared ...

It is useful for expanding the effective aperture of the interferometer, in one axis. The measurement area is around the same size as the beam when a laser interferometer's round measurement beam ...

Controlled magnetic gradients The atom chip used to create the magnet-based interferometer in the experiment. (Courtesy: Yair Margalit) An Israeli-led collaboration has used atom-chip technology to ...

An interferometer sounds like something complicated, and in a way, it is. But it is also pretty easy to build one with some common materials. [Let’s Innovate] has instructions for how to make an ...

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 ...

NASA has selected a new mission to study how the Sun generates and releases giant space weather storms – known as solar particle storms – into planetary space. Not only will such information improve ...

Deep underground An access shaft for the Large Hadron Collider could be used to host a 100 m prototype atom interferometer (courtesy: arXiv:2304.00614) The CERN particle-physics laboratory near Geneva ...

Dublin, Nov. 17, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Laser Interferometer Market Research Report by Type, Interferometer, End-user, Application, and Region - Global Forecast to 2026 - Cumulative Impact of ...