Here, we investigate the possible optical anisotropy of vacuum due to gravitational field. In doing this, we provide sufficient evidence from direct coordinate integration of the null-geodesic equations obtained from the Lagrangian method, as well as ray-tracing equations obtained from the Plebanski’s equivalent medium theory. All calculations are done for the Schwarzschild geometry, which resu...

Advanced Radio Interferometry Between Space and Earth (ARISE) is a space very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) mission with a nominal launch date of 2008. It consists of an inflatable 25-m radio telescope circulating in a highly elliptical Earth orbit with a perigee of 5,000 km and an apogee of 40,000 km. The objective is to observe in conjunction with Earth-based telescopes to obtain high-r...

An approach toward choosing optimal sets of frequency channels for bandwidth synthesis in radio interferometry is presented and applied to 14-channel 2.2-/8.4-GHz (S-/X-band) very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations. It is shown that arrays with nonredundant autocorrelations in general have a higher ratio of the delay resolution function central maximum to the nearby side lobes tha...

In phase-shifting interferometry experiments, the accuracy of the phase shift is a major issue. Many experimental and data analyses are done to cancel phase-shift errors inherent to the modulation techniques used. We propose to remove most of the phase-shift error by recourse to a frequency-shifting method. This approach can be applied to both holography and interferometry. We validate the idea...

Carrier Interferometry (CI) approaches, including Carrier-Interferometry Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (CI/OFDM) and Pseudo-Orthogonal Carrier-Interferometry OFDM (PO-CI/OFDM), have been proposed to enhance OFDM’s performance and reduce OFDM’s peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR). However, the existing high-throughput, high-performance PO-CI/OFDM system is limited for real signaling....

Optical surface profilers are state-of-the-art instruments for measuring surface height profiles. They are not conventionally applied to nanoparticle measurements due to the presence of diffraction artifacts. Here we use a theoretical model based on wave-optics to account for diffraction-based artifacts in optical surface profilers. This then enables accurate measurement of nanoparticles size o...

Laser interferometry is a measurement technique used in physical sciences, with a potential for new applications in microbiology. Our previously studies, focused on the quantitative analysis of antibiotics diffusion through membranes or their releasing from gel structure, indicate that this method might be useful in analysis of substances diffusion across the bacterial biofilms. As antibiotic -...