Abstract
This Special Issue of Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Opticsis devoted to recent advances in distance measurement techniques. The topic has been discussed at the ODIMAP (Optical Distance Measurements and Applications) Workshops that we have organized in Nantes, France in 1997, and in Pavia, Italy, in 1999 and 2001, the last workshop being attended by more than 120 delegates from all over the world – clear evidence that distance measurement is still a very fertile ground for new ideas and engineering approaches, with a solid history of achievements behind it and a bright perspective of new achievements ahead. Indeed, the story of distance measurement and interferometric techniques is studded with big discoveries and surprising results. We may trace the first ones back to the Michelson interferometer ruling out the ether hypothesis, closely followed by the Sagnac and Fizeau interferometers supplying key results to test relativity.
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