Vectorial Doppler metrology

Liang Fang; Zhenyu Wan; Andrew Forbes; Jian Wang

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-24406-z

Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Vectorial Doppler metrology

Liang Fang,
Zhenyu Wan,
Andrew Forbes,
Jian Wang

Affiliations

Liang Fang: Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Zhenyu Wan: Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Andrew Forbes: Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Jian Wang: Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24406-z
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The Doppler effect is a wave phenomenon that can find the magnitude of velocity of moving targets with scalar waves. Here, the authors use vectorially structured light with spatially variant polarization to fully determine both the magnitude of velocity and motion direction of a moving particle.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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