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    stress/strain measurement, velocimetry, optometry, and making holograms.: 1–2  Interferometers are devices that extract information from interference. They are widely...
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    The Michelson interferometer is a common configuration for optical interferometry and was invented by the 19/20th-century American physicist Albert Abraham...
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    Sagnac effect manifests itself in a setup called a ring interferometer or Sagnac interferometer. A beam of light is split and the two beams are made to...
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    The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a large-scale physics experiment and observatory designed to detect cosmic gravitational...
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  • An intensity interferometer is the name given to devices that use the Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect. In astronomy, the most common use of such an astronomical...
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    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 motor...
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  • Thumbnail for Astronomical interferometer
    An astronomical interferometer or telescope array is a set of separate telescopes, mirror segments, or radio telescope antennas that work together as a...
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  • Thumbnail for Mach–Zehnder interferometer
    The Mach–Zehnder interferometer is a device used to determine the relative phase shift variations between two collimated beams derived by splitting light...
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    The Virgo interferometer is a large Michelson interferometer designed to detect the gravitational waves predicted by general relativity. It is in Santo...
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  • The Cambridge Interferometer was a radio telescope interferometer built by Martin Ryle and Antony Hewish in the early 1950s to the west of Cambridge (between...
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    In physics, a neutron interferometer is an interferometer capable of diffracting neutrons, allowing the wave-like nature of neutrons, and other related...
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  • each interferometer. The length of each measurement interferometer is given in units of reference length by the ratio of measurement interferometer to reference...
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  • Thumbnail for Fabry–Pérot interferometer
    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...
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  • An Electron interferometer is an interferometer which interferes the wave function of electrons to make measurements. Interferometry uses the principal...
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    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...
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    creating an interference pattern. Another version is the Mach–Zehnder interferometer, which splits the beam with a beam splitter. In the basic version of...
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  • can be observed. An example of a nuller is being employed on the Keck Interferometer. This causes the light from a star to destructively interfere, effectively...
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  • An atom interferometer uses the wave-like nature of atoms in order to produce interference. In atom interferometers, the roles of matter and light are...
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  • the second. Most precision atomic measurements, such as modern atom interferometers and quantum logic gates, have a Ramsey-type configuration. A more modern...
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  • telescopes individually. This technique is the basis for astronomical interferometer arrays, which can make measurements of very small astronomical objects...
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    A Fizeau interferometer is an interferometric arrangement whereby two reflecting surfaces are placed facing each other. As seen in Fig 1, the rear-surface...
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    A Twyman–Green interferometer is a variant of the Michelson interferometer principally used to test optical components. It was introduced in 1918 by Frank...
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    combine them into an astronomical interferometer (VLTI), which is used to resolve small objects. The interferometer also includes a set of four 1.8 meter...
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    built and constantly improved. The present-day generation of laser interferometers has reached the necessary sensitivity to detect gravitational waves...
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  • Thumbnail for Michelson stellar interferometer
    The Michelson stellar interferometer is one of the earliest astronomical interferometers built and used. The interferometer was proposed by Albert A....
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    The Navy Precision Optical Interferometer (NPOI) is an American astronomical interferometer, with the world's largest baselines, operated by the Naval...
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    "Gaia" was originally derived as an acronym for Global Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics. This reflected the optical technique of interferometry...
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  • property is the detection of gravitational waves (LIGO). Conventional interferometers are based on the wave nature of the light and hence the classical interference...
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    different interferometer techniques, three are most prevalent: diffraction grating interferometers. vertical scanning or coherence probe interferometers. white...
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  • Young's interference experiment, also called Young's double-slit interferometer, was the original version of the modern double-slit experiment, performed...
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