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Building on Success… Zygo's NEW Qualifire® Laser Interferometer

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

Quantum-enhanced interferometry amplifies detection of tiny laser beam shifts and tilts

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.
The Hoya

Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory Detects Ripples in Spacetime

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 ...
AZoNano

Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) Project gets Help from PI Hexapod Alignment Systems

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 ...
Scientific American

First Space-Based Gravitational Wave Detector Gets Go-Ahead

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 ...

LISA is basically a space laser the size of the sun that will detect gravitational waves

Learn more at Spacepoint's event February 7 @ JUMP ...
Ars Technica

LIGO goes to space: ESA to proceed with LISA gravitational wave detector

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 ...