Interferometry Summary

Everything you need to understand or teach Interferometry.

  • 4 Encyclopedia Articles

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Encyclopedia Articles (4)

789 words, approx. 3 pages
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 ... Read more
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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... Read more
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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 ... Read more
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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... Read more