• An intensity interferometer is the name given to devices that use the Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect. In astronomy, the most common use of such an astronomical...
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  • The Narrabri Stellar Intensity Interferometer (NSII) was the first astronomical instrument to measure the diameters of a large number of stars at visible...
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  • Astronomical interferometer / Michelson stellar interferometer Classical interference microscopy Bath interferometer (common path) Cyclic interferometer Diffraction-grating...
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    will have an intermediate intensity pattern, which can be used to determine their relative phase difference. Most interferometers use light or some other...
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  • infrared interferometers, such as the Infrared Spatial Interferometer. Some early radio interferometers operated as intensity interferometers, transmitting...
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    The Michelson interferometer is a common configuration for optical interferometry and was invented by the 19/20th-century American physicist Albert Abraham...
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  • 1954, Robert Hanbury Brown and Richard Q. Twiss introduced the intensity interferometer concept to radio astronomy for measuring the tiny angular size...
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  • Hanbury Brown. It led to the development of the Hanbury Brown-Twiss intensity interferometer in the UK in 1954. Their work appeared to contradict the established...
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    In optics, a Fabry–Pérot interferometer (FPI) or etalon is an optical cavity made from two parallel reflecting surfaces (i.e.: thin mirrors). Optical waves...
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    The Mach–Zehnder interferometer is a device used to determine the relative phase shift variations between two collimated beams derived by splitting light...
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    the creation of intensity interferometers. Hanbury Brown was one of the main designers of the Narrabri Stellar Intensity Interferometer and received a...
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    R. Q. (1958). "Interferometry of the Intensity Fluctuations in Light. IV. A Test of an Intensity Interferometer on Sirius A". Proceedings of the Royal...
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    spectroscopic measurements. Between 1966 and 1970, the Narrabri Stellar Intensity Interferometer was used to observe the pair and to directly measure the orbital...
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    A Mirau interferometer works on the same basic principle as a Michelson interferometer. The difference between the two is in the physical location of the...
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    creating an interference pattern. Another version is the Mach–Zehnder interferometer, which splits the beam with a beam splitter. In the basic version of...
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  • interferometer, Michelson interferometer, and Sagnac interferometer), interference manifests itself as intensity oscillations over time or space, also called...
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  • interference intensity is the intensity-keyed signal. Delay line interferometer and Optical DPSK demodulator All-Fiber Delay line interferometer and Optical...
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    There are four nearly equal intensity Fresnel reflections (~4% for refraction coefficient 1.5) from the air-wedge interferometer (Fig.1): from the exterior...
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    In optics, a Gires–Tournois etalon (also known as Gires–Tournois interferometer) is a transparent plate with two reflecting surfaces, one of which has...
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    been suspected from observations made with the Narrabri Stellar Intensity Interferometer in the 1970s. The stellar parallax derived from observations by...
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    spectrum of wavelengths to be measured. The light shines into a Michelson interferometer—a certain configuration of mirrors, one of which is moved by a motor...
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    Velocity interferometer system for any reflector (VISAR) is a time-resolved velocity measurement system that uses laser interferometry to measure the surface...
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    different interferometer techniques, three are most prevalent: diffraction grating interferometers. vertical scanning or coherence probe interferometers. white...
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  • between two successive reflected or transmitted optical intensity maxima or minima of an interferometer or diffractive optical element. The FSR is not always...
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    diffraction interferometer (PDI) is a type of common-path interferometer. Unlike an amplitude-splitting interferometer, such as a Michelson interferometer, which...
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    January 2012 OSIRIS was moved to the Keck I telescope. Keck Interferometer The Interferometer allowed the light from both Keck telescopes to be combined...
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    astronomer and physicist Robert Hanbury Brown, developer of the intensity interferometer and discoverer of the Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect, was born...
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    may be used to calculate the spectrum of a source of light, while the intensity autocorrelation and the interferometric autocorrelation are commonly used...
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    research at other sites in the Narrabri area. The Narrabri Stellar Intensity Interferometer (NSII), the predecessor of SUSI, was located about 10 km north...
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  • {\displaystyle \tau } . A detector measures the time-averaged intensity of the light exiting the interferometer. The resulting visibility of the interference pattern...
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