Fizeau fringes at home

American Journal of Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 684-688

  Hernández Andrés, Javier ^a   Valero, Eva M ^a   Nieves, Juan L ^a   Romero, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

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EID: 33646659023     PISSN: 00029505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.1477434     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. We used a HP ScanJet 6200 C for our experiments, but we have checked and found that Fizeau fringes can be obtained equally well with other commercial scanners with glossy white covers.
2. M. Born and E. Wolf, Principles of Optics (Pergamon, Oxford, 1999), Chap. 10, pp. 554-619.
3. M. V. Klein and T. E. Furtak, Optics (Wiley, New York, 1986), Chap. 5, pp. 263-307.
4. F. L. Pedrotti, S. J. Pedrotti, and L. S. Pedrotti, Introduction to Optics (Prentice-Hall Intl., London, 1993), Chap. 10, pp. 211-221.
5. Hewlett-Packard web site: http: //www.hp/com
6. PR-650 spectroradiometer from Photo Research, Inc., 9731 Topanga Canyon Place, Chats worth, CA 91311.
7. CC-2022 spectrophotometer from Minolta Corporation, 101 Williams Drive, Ramsey, NJ 07446.
8. According to G. Wyszecki and W. S. Stiles, Color Science: Concepts and Methods, Quantitative Data and Formulae (Wiley, New York, 1982), Chap. 6, p. 506, white is an "attribute of a visual sensation according to which a given stimulus appears to be void of any hue and grayness." In our case the chromaticity coordinates, x and y, as measured by the spectroradiometer are 0.3072, 0.2897 with a correlated color temperature of 7380 K.
9. J. W. Goodman, Statistical Optics (Wiley, New York, 1985), Chap. 5, pp. 157-236.
10. L. Mandel and E. Wolf, Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics (Cambridge U.P., New York, 1995), Chap. 4, pp. 147-180.
11. See Ref. 9, Chap. 3, pp. 73-79.
12. See Ref. 10, Chap. 2, pp. 59-65.
13. B. H. Soffer and D. K. Lynch, "Some paradoxes, errors, and resolutions concerning the spectral optimization of human vision," Am. J. Phys. 67, 946-953 (1999).