TWO-BEAM INTERFERENCE IN PLANE-MIRROR SYSTEMS (ZWEISTRAHLINTERFERENZ IN PLANSPEIGELANORDNUNGEN),

Abstract

The interference effect is investigated in the form that appears at a finite distance in an arbitrary plane-mirror interferometer (e.g., a Mach-Zehnder interferometer) if the dimensions of the light source are not negligibly small. It is found that the most descriptive term for this interference is source-image transformation. The helical displacement between the source images in a plane-mirror interferometer gives rise to characteristic interference-fringe structures. Illustrations are given for these structures as found when the aperture stop is circular and are compared with their limiting cases as found earlier, especially wedge interference phenomena. The treatment will include the case of an eccentric position of the source.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0481909

Entities

People

  • G. Schulz

Organizations

  • American Meteorological Society

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Displacement
  • Instrumentation
  • Interferometers
  • Light Sources
  • Mach Zehnder Interferometers
  • Measuring Instruments

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Spectroscopy.