interferometer
noun
in·ter·fer·om·e·ter
ˌin-tər-fə-ˈrä-mə-tər 
ˌin-tə-,
-ˌfi-ˈrä-
: an apparatus that utilizes the interference of waves (as of light) for precise determinations (as of distance or wavelength)
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With a rectangular array of those interferometers, the team could realize a larger set of matrix operations across all six optical channels.
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Ars Technica, 12 Jan. 2025
The light is then fanned out to six channels and fed into a layer of six neurons that perform linear matrix multiplication using an array of devices called Mach-Zehnder interferometers.
—Ars Technica, 12 Jan. 2025
The result is a 50-fold improvement in an atom interferometer’s performance in lab tests.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 Jan. 2025
However, with two LIGO interferometers in different regions of the United States and one European gravitational wave interferometer (VIRGO) outside Pisa, Italy, careful timing of the wavefront’s arrival at multiple detectors allows astronomers to triangulate the direction of the signal.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Aug. 2019
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Ars Technica, 12 Jan. 2025
The light is then fanned out to six channels and fed into a layer of six neurons that perform linear matrix multiplication using an array of devices called Mach-Zehnder interferometers.
—Ars Technica, 12 Jan. 2025
The result is a 50-fold improvement in an atom interferometer’s performance in lab tests.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 Jan. 2025
However, with two LIGO interferometers in different regions of the United States and one European gravitational wave interferometer (VIRGO) outside Pisa, Italy, careful timing of the wavefront’s arrival at multiple detectors allows astronomers to triangulate the direction of the signal.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Aug. 2019
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interferometer
noun
in·ter·fer·om·e·ter
ˌint-ə(r)-fə-ˈräm-ət-ər
-ˌfir-ˈäm-
: an instrument that uses the interference of waves (as of light) for making exact measurements (as of wavelength)
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interferometer
noun
in·ter·fer·om·e·ter
ˌint-ə(r)-fə-ˈräm-ət-ər, -ˌfir-ˈäm-
: an instrument that utilizes the interference of waves (as of light) for precise determination especially of wavelength, spectral fine structure, indices of refraction, and very small linear displacements
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