Michelson interferometry with 10 pm accuracy

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 71, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 2669-2676

  Lawall, John ^a   Kessler, Ernest ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 0000231342     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1150715     Document Type: Article

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1. Here we use the term "Michelson interferometer" rather loosely to denote a two-beam interferometer whose ideal output signal is sinusoidal, as opposed to an interferometer exploiting multiple-beam interference to generate Airy fringes. In certain respects the interferometer design we present more closely resembles a traditional Mach-Zehnder interferometer, in that the beams are not recombined by the same element that split them and the enclosed area is nonzero.
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