{"id":444883,"date":"2018-02-26T08:48:49","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T12:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=9db59dc27645d941b14dde7fcb7728e9"},"modified":"2018-02-26T08:48:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T12:48:49","slug":"optical-distance-measurement-at-record-high-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=444883","title":{"rendered":"Optical distance measurement at record-high speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microresonator-based optical frequency combs enable highly-precise optical distance ranging at a rate of 100 million measurements per second \u2013 publication in Science: Scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and \u00c9cole polytechnique f\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne (EPFL) have demonstrated the fastest distance measurement so far. The researchers demonstrated on-the-fly sampling of a gun bullet profile with micrometer accuracy. The experiment relied on a soliton frequency comb generated in a chip-based optical microresonator made from silicon nitride. Potential applications comprise real-time 3-D cameras based on highly precise and compact LIDAR systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microresonator-based optical frequency combs enable highly-precise optical distance ranging at a rate of 100 million measurements per second &ndash; publication in Science: Scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and &Eacute;cole polytechnique f&eacute;d&eacute;rale de Lausanne (EPFL) have demonstrated the fastest distance measurement so far. The researchers demonstrated on-the-fly sampling of a gun bullet profile with micrometer accuracy. The experiment relied on a soliton frequency comb generated in a chip-based optical microresonator made from silicon nitride. Potential applications comprise real-time 3-D cameras based on highly precise and compact LIDAR systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=444883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444884,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444883\/revisions\/444884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=444883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=444883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=444883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}