Atom Interferometry - Detecting The Undetectable

Friday, October 19, 2012 - 07:01 in Physics & Chemistry

If one beam travels a fixed length and another travels an extra distance or in some other slightly different way, the two light beams overlap and interfere when they meet up, creating an interference pattern that scientists inspect to obtain highly precise measurements. read more

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