在美国伯克利的加利福尼亚大学,汤斯(C.Townes)和他的同事约翰逊(M.John-son)、贝茨(A.Betz)和盖尔豪斯(D.Gale-house)正在研制一种用于红外天文学的新型高分辨率器件。他们把量子电子学的新技术应用到迈克尔逊(A.A.Michelson)发明的概念上,建造了第一台红外星体干涉仪。汤斯希望其角分辨率比普通望远镜大几个数量 At the University of California at Berkeley, C. Tonnes and his colleagues M. John-Bets, A. Betz, and D. Gale-house are working on a New high-resolution device for infrared astronomy. They applied the new quantum electronic technology to the concept invented by A. A. Michelson and built the first infrared body interferometer. Towns wanted a few more angular resolutions than regular telescopes