- stress/strain measurement, velocimetry, optometry, and
making holograms.: 1–2
Interferometers are
devices that
extract information from interference. They are widely...
- The
Michelson interferometer is a
common configuration for
optical interferometry and was
invented by the
American physicist Albert Abraham Michelson in...
- The
Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave
Observatory (LIGO) is a large-scale
physics experiment and
observatory designed to
detect cosmic gravitational...
- 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...
-
interferometer is a large-scale
scientific instrument near Pisa, Italy, for
detecting gravitational waves. The
detector is a
Michelson 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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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...
- 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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creating an
interference pattern.
Another version is the Mach–Zehnder
interferometer,
which splits the beam with a beam splitter. In the
basic version of...
- 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...
