X-Message-Number: 19387 From: "Brett Bellmore" <> Subject: Re: Intensity interfereometer. Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 16:07:50 -0400 "Using balistic gate transistors, I assume 100 Ghz is a possibility. Moving from 100 Mhz to 100 Ghz would divide observing time on an intensity interferometer by one million. For low power light sources such stars, the benefit is even larger: Oberving shorter tails would enhence energy efficiency and so allows observation of dimer sources." Unfortunately, 100 Ghz sampling rates are NOT a possibility. Remember, light is a particle as well as a wave, and if you're sampling at higher than the rate photons are arriving, most of your samples will be empty. Naturally, the dimmer the source, the lower the rate at which photons arrive... Brett Bellmore Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19387