On the formation of white-light interference fringes

American Journal of Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 985-989

  Kovacs A P ^a   Varju K ^a   Osvay, K ^a   Bor, Zs ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

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EID: 0041171587     PISSN: 00029505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.19068     Document Type: Article

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10. This type of beam splitter cube has no phase dispersion over a broad spectral range. It is an important aspect of the selection of the beam splitter cube because the SRWLI fringes become curved as an effect of the phase dispersion and the simple theoretical model presented here cannot be used.
11. See Ref. 5, pp. 277-278.