Timeline for Is it possible to observe interference from 2 independent optical lasers?
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| Nov 18, 2010 at 22:00 | vote | accept | Fiktor | ||
| Nov 18, 2010 at 14:31 | answer | added | Andrew | timeline score: 20 | |
| Nov 12, 2010 at 20:12 | vote | accept | Fiktor | ||
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| Nov 12, 2010 at 18:20 | comment | added | crasic | The two lasers have to emit mutually coherent beams. Otherwise you would just be measuring noise on your new and expensive detectors. | |
| Nov 12, 2010 at 14:39 | history | edited | j.c. |
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| Nov 12, 2010 at 14:24 | answer | added | Chad Orzel | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 12, 2010 at 12:20 | answer | added | Bernardo Kyotoku | timeline score: 9 | |
| Nov 12, 2010 at 11:44 | answer | added | Steve | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 12, 2010 at 10:58 | comment | added | Tobias Kienzler | Interference only occurs if the phase relation between the two lasers is stable over a "useful" amount of time, I don't know if that is technically manageable but in theory there's no reason why not | |
| Nov 12, 2010 at 10:47 | history | asked | Fiktor | CC BY-SA 2.5 |