Reconciling and validating the Ashworth–Davies Doppler shifts of an arbitrarily translating mirror

Ziv Roi-Cohen, Merav Kahn, Nadav Katz, Stefania Residori, Umberto Bortolozzo, John C. Howell*

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Abstract

We simplify, to first order in vc , the generalized, special relativistic treatment of a Doppler shift from an arbitrarily translating mirror originally derived by Ashworth and Davies [Proc. IEEE 64, 280 (1976)]. We show that it is in good agreement with a somewhat modified, but more intuitive, derivation that only considers the constancy of the speed of light. We experimentally demonstrate the theoretical predictions using phase-insensitive frequency measurements in a liquid crystal light valve with mirror translations of only a few tens of nanometers per second.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1581-1584
Number of pages4
JournalJournal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision
Volume41
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2024

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