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Actual Optics and light-weight Measurements, (Methods in Experimental Physics quantity 26 )

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Instead two irradiance detectors are used, and then the irradiance variations in the two signals are electronically correlated. 25. Fringe visibility in Michelson stellar interferometer. 3. Multiple-Beam Interferometers Some interferometers form their interference patterns with the superposition of more than two wave fronts. These interferometers have many advantages, as we shall see in this section. 1. The ~ ~ irradiance pattern of a two-beam interferometer is sinusoidal, and therefore the exact position of a fringe maximum cannot visually be located with an accuracy greater than about one tenth of the fringe spacing.

The second advantage is called Fellgett9’ or multiplex advantage. In a spectroscope, different wavelengths are studied either at different times if a photoelectric detector is used or with different photographic regions if a photographic plate is used. In interference spectroscopy, on the other hand, all spectral lines are measured simultaneously with a single photoelectric detector. This is equivalent to coding each optical frequency by an electrical cosine signal with different frequency, and then decoding numerically by Fourier analysis.

An interference filter can be made by evaporating a thin reflective film, like silver or aluminum, on a piece of glass. Then a transparent film, like magnesium fluoride, is evaporated on the metal. On this layer, another film of metal is evaporated to complete the films. It is interesting to point out that the glass substrate does not have to be extremely flat, since the important thing is only the constant thickness of the evaporated spacer. -glass m -c-i-elatl coating dielectric spacer -glass Fic;.

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