For more than 50 years, phase-shifting interferometry has been the technology of choice for high-precision surface form ...

A quantum trick based on interferometric measurements allows a team of researchers at LMU to detect even the smallest movements of a laser beam with extreme sensitivity.

For most of us, the mention of “technological innovation” brings to mind images of the technologies that have become useful for our everyday lives. We imagine aspiring app developers lounging about ...

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Engineers and scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, completed tests this month on a second early ...

The first experiment to measure gravitational waves from space has been given the green light by the European Space Agency (ESA). The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will use the precise ...

6-axis nanopositioning system assembly provides the ultra high precision required to mount and align optical components to be launched into space, new from PI. Image Credit: PI (Physik Instrumente) LP ...

On Thursday, the European Space Agency’s Science Programme Committee gave the go-ahead to the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, or LISA project. This would mean the construction of the mission’s ...

Orbital observatories such as the Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can see far back into the universe—so far, in fact, that they have revealed some of the earliest galaxies ...