U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) researchers have developed a patent-pending Continuous 3D-Cooled Atom Beam Interferometer derived from a patented cold and continuous beam of atoms to explore atom ...

Interferometers measure distance in terms of wavelength and determine the wavelengths of light sources. They use two or more flat mirrors to split off or pick off beams from a light source such as a ...

Interferometers can be considered specific cases of array antennas. The linear array in which all antenna elements center lie in a straight line at equal spacings with beam forming done by phase shift ...

A new technique in matter-wave interferometry using laser light to fragment molecules may open the door to interference demonstrations with large bio-molecules or nanoclusters. Figure 1: In the ...

Warming up: illustration of the interferometer. (Courtesy: APS / Alan Stonebreaker) An atom interferometer that does not have to be cooled to cryognenic temperatures has been created by physicists in ...

Engineers developing technologies such as laser and fiber ring gyroscopes for civilian and military applications can now test new ideas and configurations in the virtual world using numerical ...