Saturday, April 9, 2016

A twist on Hanbury Brown—Twiss interferometry offers new approach for remote sensing





A twist on Hanbury Brown -- Twiss interferometry offers new approach for remote sensing



Researchers find that fluctuations of twisted beams of random light, such as sunlight, lead to an angular Hanbury Brown-Twisseffect. Credit: Andreas Liapis

A team from the University of Rochester has shown that fluctuations in “twisted light” could be exploited for a range of applications, from detecting rotating black holes to object detection by lidar, the light-equivalent of radar.







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A twist on Hanbury Brown—Twiss interferometry offers new approach for remote sensing

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