Ultra Precision Doppler Measurements


  John Howell  ,  Bethany Little  ,  Julian Martinez  ,  Chris Mullarkey  ,  Stefania Residori  ,  Umberto Bertolozzo  
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

I will discuss some of our recent efforts using liquid crystal light valves to measure micro-Hz Doppler shifts on times scales of a second.  We use these to measure ultra-small Doppler shifts (pm/s) as well as displacements (fm) without requiring high precision phase stability.