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Matter-wave interferometry performed with massive objects elucidates their wave nature and thus tests the quantum superposition principle at large scales. Whereas standard quantum theory places no limit on particle size, alternative, yet…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-27 James Bateman , Stefan Nimmrichter , Klaus Hornberger , Hendrik Ulbricht

Spatial phase-referencing in dual-field optical interferometry is reconsidered. Our analysis is based on the 2-sample variance of the differential phase between target and reference star. We show that averaging over time of the atmospheric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gerard Daigne , Jean-Francois Lestrade

The paper deals with the impact of wavefront errors, due to the optical aberrations of a two-beam interferometer, on the period of the travelling fringe observed by integrating the interference pattern. A Monte Carlo simulation of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-07-20 G Mana , E Massa , C P Sasso

A neutron radiography testing station has been developed exploiting the neutron beam of CERN's n\_TOF Experimental Area 2, located at the shortest distance to the neutron producing-target. The characteristics of the n\_TOF neutron beam for…

We generalize the technique of fringe-rate filtering, whereby visibilities measured by a radio interferometer are re-weighted according to their temporal variation. As the Earth rotates, radio sources traverse through an interferometer's…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-21 Aaron R. Parsons , Adrian Liu , Zaki S. Ali , Carina Cheng

Classical optical interferometery requires maintaining live, phase-stable links between telescope stations. This requirement greatly adds to the cost of extending to long baseline separations, and limits on baselines will in turn limit the…

X-ray Talbot-Lau interferometer has been used widely to conduct phase contrast imaging with a conventional low-brilliance x-ray source. Typically, in this technique, background correction has to be performed in order to obtain the pure…

The U. C. Berkeley Infrared Spatial Interferometer has been outfitted with a filterbank system to allow interferometric observations of mid-infrared spectral lines with very high spectral resolution (R ~ 10^5). This paper describes the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. D. Monnier , W. Fitelson , W. C. Danchi , C. H. Townes

We demonstrate a closed-loop light-pulse atom interferometer inertial sensor that can realize continuous decoupled measurements of acceleration and rotation rate. The sensor operates with double-loop atom interferometers, which share the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Zhi-Xin Meng , Pei-Qiang Yan , Sheng-Zhe Wang , Xiao-Jie Li , Hong-bo Xue , Yan-Ying Feng

The interferometer is one of the most important devices for revealing the nature of light and for precision optical metrology. Though lots of experiments were performed for probing photons behaviors in various configurations, a complete…

Universal multiport interferometers, which can be programmed to implement any linear transformation between multiple channels, are emerging as a powerful tool for both classical and quantum photonics. These interferometers are typically…

The conventional approach to high-precision narrow-angle astrometry using a long baseline interferometer is to directly measure the fringe packet separation of a target and a nearby reference star. This is done by means of a technique known…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-25 Y. Kok , M. J. Ireland , A. C. Rizzuto , P. G. Tuthill , J. G. Robertson , B. A. Warrington , W. J. Tango

Interferometry is a prime technique for modern precision measurements. Atoms, unlike light, have significant interactions with electric, magnetic, and gravitational fields, making their use in interferometric applications particularly…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-07-12 Maren E. Mossman , Ryan A. Corbin , Michael McNeil Forbes , Peter Engels

An interferometer design that cancels all displacement noises of its test masses and maintains a gravitational-wave (GW) signal by combining multiple detector signals is called a displacement noise-free interferometer (DFI). The idea has…

Intensity interferometry is a technique that has been used to measure the size of sources ranging from the quark-gluon plasma formed in heavy ion collisions to the radii of stars. We investigate using the same technique to measure…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-03 Warren P. Wright , James P. Kneller

We analyze the dynamics of neutron beams in interferometry experiments using quantum dynamical semigroups. We show that these experiments could provide stringent limits on the non-standard, dissipative terms appearing in the extended…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Benatti , R. Floreanini

One of the key tasks in grating based x-ray phase contrast imaging is to accurately retrieve local phase gradients of a sample from measured intensity fringe shifts. To fulfill this task in dual phase grating interferometry, one needs to…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Aimin Yan , Xizeng Wu , Hong Liu

We propose an interferometric scheme where each photon returns one bit of the binary expansion of an unknown phase. It sets up a method for estimating the phase value at arbitrary uncertainty. This strategy is global, since it requires no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-23 Simone Roncallo , Xi Lu , Lorenzo Maccone

Neutron imaging has gained significant importance as a material characterisation technique and is particularly useful to visualise hydrogenous materials in objects opaque to other radiations. Particular fields of application include…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-14 Estrid Buhl Naver , Okan Yetik , Noémie Ott , Matteo Busi , Pavel Trtik , Luise Theil Kuhn , Markus Strobl

Dark-field imaging based on grating interferometry is an emerging X-ray modality in medical imaging, which is particularly capable of providing complementary diagnostic information by visualizing the microstructural properties of lung…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Longchao Men , Peiyuan Guo , Jincheng Lu , Yan Xu , Hongxia Yin , Zhenchang Wang , Li Zhang , Zhentian Wang