Search for general relativistic effects in table-top displacement metrology

Halverson, Peter G.; Diaz, Rosemary T.; Macdonald, Daniel R.

Search for general relativistic effects in table-top displacement metrology

Halverson, Peter G.; Diaz, Rosemary T.; Macdonald, Daniel R.

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2014/39084

Date: 2004-05-16

Keywords: metrology; displacement metrology; interferometry; gravitation

Publisher: Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2004.

Citation: Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics/ International Quantum Electronics Conference, San Francisco, California, May 16-21, 2004.

Abstract:

As displacement metrology accuracy improves, general relativistic effects will become noticeable. Metrology gauges developed for the Space Interferometry Mission, were used to search for locally anisotropic space-time, with a null result at the 10 to the negative 10th power level.

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