Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, two new studies present an in-depth analysis of the planet Beta Pictoris b's atmosphere using interferometry with the Very Large Telescope ...

Fringe conference can be traced to the automatic processing of fringe patterns. The term “patterns” evokes an image of flowing lines elegantly wrapped around surface contours. However, automatic ...

Exail, a global company focusing on photonics and quantum technologies, has delivered three of it Absolute Quantum ...

Strongly correlated quantum systems can exhibit exotic behaviour called topological order which is characterized by non-local correlations that depend on the system topology. Such systems can exhibit ...

The Event Horizon Telescope has accomplished what no other telescope or telescope array has ever done: imaged the event horizon of a black hole directly. A team of more than 200 scientists using data ...

This image compares data from two Iceye Synthetic Aperture Radar images. Changes in the vertical height of the surface appear black. Areas without changes are depicted in white. Credit: Iceye SAN ...

Microlenses have many applications, such as coupling light into fiber optics, enhancing light source uniformity in microdisplays, and focusing light onto imaging sensors in mobile phone cameras.

Manufacturing a precision surface requires a balance between satisfying the optimum quality requirements at the minimum cost. Steve Martinek summarizes the challenges of increasing the precision ...

The Allen Telescope Array, Hat Creek Radio Observatory. Credit: Alexander Pollak. Radio interferometry is a technique in radio astronomy where signals from two or more radio telescopes are combined to ...

This image wasn’t taken by a single telescope or camera. It was created using a technique called Very Long Baseline Interferometry, which links observatories across the planet. Each telescope recorded ...

White light interferometry (WLI) is a contact-free optical method for measuring surface height. It uses the phase difference between the light reflected off a reference mirror and the target sample to ...