The main drawback of this method is that for typical path lengths possible in a crowded laboratory, very high frequencies are required to produce measurable phase shifts. This requires the use of specialized and expensive oscilloscopes to display the waveforms. The system used here, however, uses a mixing technique which allows the phase shift between high frequency signals to be observed on a ...

Imaging Laser Doppler Velocimetry (ILDV) is a flow measurement technique which facilitates the measurement of one velocity component of a flow field in an imaging plane. It is an evolution of Heterodyne Doppler Global Velocimetry and may be regarded as the planar extension of the classical dual beam LDV by crossing two light sheets in the flow instead of focused laser beams. With different ligh...

Any charged particle moving faster than light through a medium emits Cherenkov radiation. We show that charged particles moving faster than light through the vacuum emit Cherenkov radiation. How can a particle move faster than light? The weak speed of a charged particle can exceed the speed of light. By definition, the weak velocity ^v&w is ^C f inuvuC in&/^C f inuC in&, where v is the velocity...

Any charged particle moving faster than light through a medium emits Cherenkov radiation. We show that charged particles moving faster than light through the vacuum emit Cherenkov radiation. How can a particle move faster than light? The weak speed of a charged particle can exceed the speed of light. By definition, the weak velocity v w is Ψ f in |v|Ψ in /Ψ f in |Ψ in , where v is the velocity ...

We describe recent experiments on generation and applications of amplitude-squeezed states of light from a semiconductor diode laser. Amplitude-squeezed light with intensity noise 2 dB below the standard shot- noise limit was observed from a diode laser with a weak optical feedback from an external grating. Applications of this amplitude-squeezed light as a local oscillator in heterodyne detect...