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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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    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...
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    Michelson used a prototype experimental device to make several more measurements. The device he designed, later known as a Michelson interferometer,...
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    concentrated on developing an improved interferometer. In 1887 he and Edward Morley carried out the famous Michelson–Morley experiment which failed to detect...
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    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 Moon Michelson-Gale-Pearson experiment, science Michelson interferometer, most common configuration for optical interferometry Michelson–Morley experiment...
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  • Astronomical interferometer / Michelson stellar interferometer Classical interference microscopy Bath interferometer (common path) Cyclic interferometer Diffraction-grating...
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    giant ring interferometer be constructed to measure the rotation of the Earth; a similar suggestion was made by Albert Abraham Michelson in 1904. They...
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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...
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    the first uses of optical interferometry was applied by the Michelson stellar interferometer on the Mount Wilson Observatory's reflector telescope to measure...
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  • 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...
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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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  • vibrations than a "double-path interferometer" such as the Michelson interferometer or the Mach–Zehnder interferometer. Although travelling along the...
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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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    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...
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    interferometer is a large-scale scientific instrument near Pisa, Italy, for detecting gravitational waves. The detector is a Michelson interferometer...
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  • Northern Hemisphere at 45 MHz - 214 MHz using the 2-element Long Michelson Interferometer), discovering some of the most interesting astronomical objects...
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  • introduces a time delay—the Fourier-transform spectrometer is just a Michelson interferometer with a movable mirror. The beams interfere, allowing the temporal...
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    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...
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    The Mach–Zehnder check interferometer is a highly configurable instrument. In contrast to the well-known Michelson interferometer, each of the well-separated...
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  • in an interferometer. In linear optical interferometers[clarification needed] (like the Mach–Zehnder interferometer, Michelson interferometer, and Sagnac...
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    experiment. The primary interferometer consists of two beam lines of 4 km length which form a power-recycled Michelson interferometer with Gires–Tournois...
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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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  • observed in the Michelson–Morley experiment and Young's interference experiment. Once the fringes are obtained in the Michelson interferometer, when one of...
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    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...
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    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...
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    measurements or topography. The basic configuration is the same as a Michelson interferometer. What distinguishes the Linnik configuration is the use of measurement...
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  • The Michelson–Gale–Pearson experiment (1925) is a modified version of the Michelson–Morley experiment and the Sagnac-Interferometer. It measured the Sagnac...
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  • use. The intensity interferometer has a very poor signal-to-noise ratio compared to the classical "Michelson" stellar interferometer. Twiss decided to...
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    based on laser interferometry. Its three satellites form a giant Michelson interferometer in which two "transponder" satellites play the role of reflectors...
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