interferometric measurement
1Measurement of sea ice — Annual growth and retreat of the polar ice packs from SeaWiFS images Measurement of sea ice is important for safety of navigation and for monitoring the environment, particularly the climate. Record keeping of direct observations began over a… …
2N-slit interferometric equation — Quantum mechanics was first applied to optics, and interference in particular, by Paul Dirac.[1] Feynman, in his lectures, uses Dirac’s notation to describe thought experiments on double slit interference of electrons.[2] Feynman’s approach was… …
3History of astronomical interferometry — See also: astronomical interferometerWilliam Herschel knew as early as 1779 (Herschel 1805) that stars appeared much larger in telescopes than they really were but he did not know why. When Thomas Young demonstrated interference and the wave… …
4History of the telescope — The earliest known working telescopes appeared in 1608 and are credited to Hans Lippershey and Zacharias Janssen, spectacle makers in Middelburg, and Jacob Metius of Alkmaar. The design of these early refracting telescopes consisted of a convex… …
5Ultrashort pulse — In optics, an ultrashort pulse of light is an electromagnetic pulse whose time duration is on the order of the femtosecond (10 − 15 second). Such pulses have a broadband optical spectrum, and can be created by mode locked oscillators. They are… …
6Capella (star) — For other uses, see Capella (disambiguation). Capella Aa/Ab Capella is the brightest star in Auriga Observation data Epoch J2000.0     …
7Quantum noise — is uncertainty of some physical quantity due to its quantum origin.In the case of number of particles (photons or electrons), the quantum noise is also called shot noise. Most optical communications use amplitude modulation. In this case, the… …
8Curtis J. Humphreys — Born February 17, 1898(1898 02 17) Alliance, Ohio, United States Died November 1986 …
9Modulating retro-reflector — A modulating retro reflector (MRR) system combines an optical retro reflector and an optical modulator to allow optical communications[1] and sometimes other functions such as programmable signage.[2] Free space optical communication technology… …
10Radar MASINT — is one of the subdisciplines of Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT) and refers to intelligence gathering activities that bring together disparate elements that do not fit within the definitions of Signals Intelligence (SIGINT),… …
