Interferometer
An interferometer is a device constructed to split a beam of light into two perpendicular beams and then to bring the two beams together again. Any difference between the beams creates ...
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Radio Interferometer
A radio interferometer was invented by merging radio astronomy with computer technology.
Radio astronomy began in the 1930s when Karl Jansky (1905-1950) built a radio receiver des...
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Interferometry
Interferometry uses the principles of interference to determine properties about waves, their sources, or the wave propagation medium. Acoustic interferometry has been applied to study ...
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Interferometry
One of the greatest topics for debate in the late nineteenth century was the nature of light: classical physicists believed that light was an undulatory wave--that it moved through a me...
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