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  2. Interferometry - Wikipedia

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    Figure 1. The light path through a Michelson interferometer.The two light rays with a common source combine at the half-silvered mirror to reach the detector. They may either interfere constructively (strengthening in intensity) if their light waves arrive in phase, or interfere destructively (weakening in intensity) if they arrive out of phase, depending on the exact distances between the ...

  3. Michelson interferometer - Wikipedia

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    Figure 3. Formation of fringes in a Michelson interferometer This photo shows the fringe pattern formed by the Michelson interferometer, using monochromatic light (sodium D lines). As shown in Fig. 3a and 3b, the observer has a direct view of mirror M 1 seen through the beam splitter, and sees a reflected image M' 2 of mirror M 2.

  4. List of types of interferometers - Wikipedia

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    Watson interferometer (microscopy) White-light interferometer (see also Optical coherence tomography, White light interferometry, and Coherence Scanning Interferometry) White-light scatterplate interferometer (white-light) (microscopy) Young's double-slit interferometer; Zernike phase-contrast microscopy

  5. White light interferometry - Wikipedia

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    A broadband “white light” source is used to illuminate the test and reference surfaces. A condenser lens collimates the light from the broadband light source. A beam splitter separates the light into reference and measurement beams. The reference beam is reflected by the reference mirror, while the measurement beam is reflected or scattered ...

  6. Mach–Zehnder interferometer - Wikipedia

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    The Mach–Zehnder interferometer is a device used to determine the relative phase shift variations between two collimated beams derived by splitting light from a single source. The interferometer has been used, among other things, to measure phase shifts between the two beams caused by a sample or a change in length of one of the paths.

  7. Holographic interferometry - Wikipedia

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    Since its introduction, vibrometry by holographic interferometry has become commonplace. Powell and Stetson have shown that the fringes of the time-averaged hologram of a vibrating object correspond to the zeros of the Bessel function (), where (,) is the modulation depth of the phase modulation of the optical field at , on the object. [1]

  8. Michelson–Morley experiment - Wikipedia

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    Both arms of the interferometer were contained in a transparent solid . The light source was a Helium–neon laser. ~7 km/s Trimmer et al. [30] [31] 1973: They searched for anisotropies of the speed of light behaving as the first and third of the Legendre polynomials. They used a triangle interferometer, with one portion of the path in glass.

  9. Bio-layer interferometry - Wikipedia

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    Bio-layer interferometry (BLI) is an optical biosensing technology that analyzes biomolecular interactions in real-time without the need for fluorescent labeling. [1] Alongside Surface Plasmon Resonance , BLI is one of few widely available label-free biosensing technologies, a detection style that yields more information in less time than ...