Revolutionary Technology -- Atom Optics (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Revolutionary Technology -- Atom Optics

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Goddard physicist Babak Saif, along with researchers from Stanford University and AOSense Inc., a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company, has received NASA funding to advance a potentially revolutionary technology -- atom optics -- to detect theoretically predicted gravitational waves.

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NASA/Pat Izzo

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