How to Use interferometer in a Sentence

interferometer

noun

• The light wave that exits the interferometer in this case will be bright.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 3 Oct. 2018
• And to detect the tiny stretching of space, the interferometer arms must be long.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 10 Mar. 2021
• The heart of the satellite is a new technology known as a Ka-band radar interferometer (KaRin).
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 16 Dec. 2022
• The qubits then pass through a single gate that consists of a maze of interferometers (the linear operation used to construct the gates).
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2018
• Bartholomew and his colleagues have been working together on QHDs that could one day be used to build such an interferometer.
  — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 19 Apr. 2021
• So far, though, no such interferometers are up and running.
  — Wired, 29 Aug. 2019
• To test their theory, the researchers used a device called a laser interferometer, which splits a laser beam and sends it down two 40-meter-long tunnels to reflect off a mirror and back again.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2015
• Atom interferometers work by cooling down a cloud of atoms to just a few degrees above absolute zero.
  — Michael Moyer, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2013
• This device, better known as a Michelson interferometer, has a unique L-shape.
  — Caitlyn Buongiorno, Discover Magazine, 9 July 2020
• To accurately gauge the small amount of force, the Dresden team used a laser interferometer to measure the physical displacement of the balance scales produced by the EmDrive.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, WIRED, 5 June 2019
• The difference between these systems and a time-of-flight lidar system is that the interferometers compare light that reflects from the object to light that travels a fixed distance.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2018
• Once the pulses return, the experimenters run them back through the interferometer.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 27 Oct. 2017
• Optical switches are placed on each arm of the interferometer so that light is directed to waveguides of different path lengths.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Oct. 2018
• Among the recent enhancements is an atom interferometer, which can use the BECs to measure any changes in gravity on a planetary surface.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 June 2020
• Then the two outputs from each interferometer encounter a series of beam splitters and detectors.
  — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 6 May 2019
• This is why everyone should have at least one interferometer.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 3 Oct. 2018
• To clarify how this analogy relates to the actual device, Hu explains that the device consists of an interferometer, which interferes with the beams of light.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Oct. 2018
• The term for a device that measures interference is, well, an interferometer.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2020
• The level of seismic isolation demanded by the LIGO interferometer is not easy to achieve and requires complex and precise machinery.
  — Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2016
• Each waveguide has a small heating element attached that allows the researchers to control the exact distance the photons travel between and in each interferometer.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2018
• Guo’s group stuck to the basics, using an actual Mach-Zehnder interferometer.
  — Quanta Magazine, 25 July 2018
• The range of values is entirely contained within the error bars of a previous measurement made using an atom interferometer.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 13 Apr. 2018
• The interferometer then combines the beams, analyzes their light waves, and translates the resulting data into a digital image.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2001
• Any passing gravitational wave will alter the pattern, which the interferometer will pick up.
  — Tim Hornyak, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2016
• The Navy also operates an optical interferometer, which has a baseline of 300 meters.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 1 Feb. 2018
• To tamp down other vibrations, the interferometer must be housed in a vacuum chamber and the weighty mirrors hung from sophisticated suspension systems.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 10 Mar. 2021
• The instrument is carefully calibrated so that, in the absence of a gravitational wave, the interference of the laser results in nearly perfect cancellation – no light comes out of the interferometer.
  — Sean McWilliams, Smithsonian, 1 June 2017
• The astronomers in question observed the star using an interferometer, allowing extremely precise measurements of the star's size, which in turn yielded very accurate numbers for its temperature and mass.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 20 July 2011
• Using a modern sub-millimeter interferometer located in the Atacama Desert of Chile, scientists determined the features of the complex galaxy.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 10 Feb. 2023
• The researchers protected their delicate interferometer setup from vibrations by placing it atop a solid sandstone slab, floating almost friction-free in a trough of mercury and further isolated in a campus building’s basement.
  — Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2019

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