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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...
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  • adjunct or replacement for velocity interferometer system for any reflector (VISAR), another time-resolved velocity interferometry system. Modern data acquisition...
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    Particle tracking velocimetry Photon Doppler velocimetry Velocity interferometer system for any reflector (VISAR) White, A. D., and J. D. Rigden, "Continuous...
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  • VISAR may refer to: Acronyms Velocity interferometer system for any reflector, a velocity measurement system Video Image Stabilization and Registration...
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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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  • peening. In 1998, they measured using VISAR (Velocimeter Interferometer System for Any Reflector) pressure loadings in water confinement regime as function...
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    Michelson interferometer with one mirror movable. (A practical Fourier transform spectrometer would substitute corner cube reflectors for the flat mirrors...
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    the fringes of a secondary interferometer lit by a helium–neon laser. In modern FTIR systems the constant mirror velocity is not strictly required, as...
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    crucial part of many optical experimental and measurement systems, such as interferometers, also finding widespread application in fibre optic telecommunications...
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    unstable, with a small enough mass that the escape velocity of the system is lower than the average velocity of the constituent stars. These clusters will...
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    magnetic field at a constant velocity v {\displaystyle v} . Coil position and velocity measurement circuitry uses an interferometer together with a precision...
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    ejecta have large expansion velocities and large sizes (compared to stars). Further, they can be observed with radio interferometers which can measure very...
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    An acoustic interferometer is an instrument for measuring the physical characteristics of sound waves in a gas or liquid, such velocity, wavelength,...
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    measured by an astronomical interferometer, giving an estimated angular diameter of 5.936±0.016 mas. The projected rotational velocity is a relatively low 16 km/s...
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    Observatory and Naval Research Laboratory in the Navy Precision Optical Interferometer (NPOI) also located at that site. The Observatory also operates smaller...
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    Relativity Theory. In 1881 Albert A. Michelson first performed his interferometer experiments in the cellar of the main building of the AOP, that were...
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    between two mirror surfaces (reflectors)of a Fabry–Pérot interferometer. A spontaneously emitted photon inside this interferometer can force excited atoms...
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  • structure of a photodetector is placed inside a Fabry–Pérot interferometer. This interferometer has two parallel surfaces between which a selected wavelength...
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    good resolution, and later led to the development of the multi-dish interferometer for making high-resolution aperture synthesis radio images (or "radio...
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    expensive implementation, the returned light is split and fed to an interferometer, which detects movement of the surface by changes in the optical path...
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    JSTOR 1650052. Pease, F. G. (1921). "The Diameter of Alpha Scorpii by the Interferometer Method". Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 33...
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    Optics (redirect from Optical system)
    diffuse reflectors are described or can be approximated by Lambert's cosine law, which describes surfaces that have equal luminance when viewed from any angle...
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    A fiber Bragg grating (FBG) is a type of distributed Bragg reflector constructed in a short segment of optical fiber that reflects particular wavelengths...
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    seven years of bad luck. The terms "mirror" and "reflector" can be used for objects that reflect any other types of waves. An acoustic mirror reflects...
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  • members of the system. Due to this, the tight orbit, the fact that the system is almost edge-on, and the very low transverse velocity of the system as seen from...
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    Capella (category Multiple star systems)
    of any object outside the Solar System. A high-precision orbit was published in 1994 based on observations by the Mark III Stellar Interferometer, again...
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    propagation due to variation of velocity Sonar – Acoustic sensing method Underwater acoustic positioning system – System for tracking and navigation of underwater...
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    next three years, including the Very Small Array, Degree Angular Scale Interferometer (DASI), and the Cosmic Background Imager (CBI). DASI made the first...
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    Spectrograph, the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Keck Interferometer, the Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy, and the Herschel Space Observatory...
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    approximately equally spaced frequencies (similar to a Fabry–Pérot interferometer). Unfortunately the resonant modes are not exactly equally spaced due...
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