The Michelson interferometer is a common configuration for optical interferometry and was invented by the 19/20th-century American physicist Albert Abraham...

beams as they traverse the optical system.: 26, 171–172  (See Michelson interferometer for a discussion of this.) The law of interference of light was...

Michelson used a prototype experimental device to make several more measurements. The device he designed, later known as a Michelson interferometer,...

concentrated on developing an improved interferometer. In 1887 he and Edward Morley carried out the famous Michelson–Morley experiment which failed to detect...

The Michelson stellar interferometer is one of the earliest astronomical interferometers built and used. The interferometer was proposed by Albert A....

the Moon Michelson-Gale-Pearson experiment, science Michelson interferometer, most common configuration for optical interferometry Michelson–Morley experiment...

giant ring interferometer be constructed to measure the rotation of the Earth; a similar suggestion was made by Albert Abraham Michelson in 1904. They...

Astronomical interferometer / Michelson stellar interferometer Classical interference microscopy Bath interferometer (common path) Cyclic interferometer Diffraction-grating...

spectrum of wavelengths to be measured. The light shines into a Michelson interferometer—a certain configuration of mirrors, one of which is moved by a...

the first uses of optical interferometry was applied by the Michelson stellar interferometer on the Mount Wilson Observatory's reflector telescope to measure...

52.210°N 0.101°E / 52.210; 0.101 The Long Michelson Interferometer was a radio telescope interferometer built by Martin Ryle and co-workers in the late...

A Twyman–Green interferometer is a variant of the Michelson interferometer principally used to test optical components. It was introduced in 1918 by Frank...

staff and reports to the NOFS Director. NPOI is an example of the Michelson Interferometer design, with the principal science managed by NOFS. Lowell Observatory...

vibrations than a "double-path interferometer" such as the Michelson interferometer or the Mach–Zehnder interferometer. Although travelling along the...

A Mirau interferometer works on the same basic principle as a Michelson interferometer. The difference between the two is in the physical location of the...

interferometer is a large-scale scientific instrument near Pisa, Italy, for detecting gravitational waves. The detector is a Michelson interferometer...

Northern Hemisphere at 45 MHz - 214 MHz using the 2-element Long Michelson Interferometer), discovering some of the most interesting astronomical objects...

in an interferometer. In linear optical interferometers[clarification needed] (like the Mach–Zehnder interferometer, Michelson interferometer, and Sagnac...

The Mach–Zehnder check interferometer is a highly configurable instrument. In contrast to the well-known Michelson interferometer, each of the well-separated...

introduces a time delay—the Fourier-transform spectrometer is just a Michelson interferometer with a movable mirror. The beams interfere, allowing the temporal...

In optics, a Fabry–Pérot interferometer (FPI) or etalon is an optical cavity made from two parallel reflecting surfaces (i.e.: thin mirrors). Optical waves...

experiment. The primary interferometer consists of two beam lines of 4 km length which form a power-recycled Michelson interferometer with Gires–Tournois...

observed in the Michelson–Morley experiment and Young's interference experiment. Once the fringes are obtained in the Michelson interferometer, when one of...

measured experimentally by placing a slow detector at the output of a Michelson interferometer. The detector is illuminated by the input electric field E ( t...

a number of ways but the stable fringe pattern found in the Michelson type interferometers is caused by the separation of the original source into two...

measurements or topography. The basic configuration is the same as a Michelson interferometer. What distinguishes the Linnik configuration is the use of measurement...

A delay line interferometer (DLI) can be a Mach–Zehnder interferometer or Michelson interferometer based on two-beam interference, in which one beam is...

The Michelson–Gale–Pearson experiment (1925) is a modified version of the Michelson–Morley experiment and the Sagnac-Interferometer. It measured the Sagnac...

use. The intensity interferometer has a very poor signal-to-noise ratio compared to the classical "Michelson" stellar interferometer. Twiss decided to...

it shortens the other. This is precisely the motion to which a Michelson interferometer is most sensitive.[citation needed] Even with such long arms, the...