A laboratory test of the isotropy of light propagation at the 10−17 level

@article{Eisele2009ALT,  title={A laboratory test of the isotropy of light propagation at the 10−17 level},  author={Ch. Eisele and Alexander Yu. Nevsky and Stephan Schiller},  journal={CLEO/Europe - EQEC 2009 - European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the European Quantum Electronics Conference},  year={2009},  pages={1-1},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:33875626}}
A strongly improved test of the isotropy of light propagation (Michelson-Morley-type experiment) is reported on, demonstrating the independence of the results of any local experiment from its orientation in space.

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