Michelson interferometer (606 bytes)
1: <div style = "float:right">[[Image:Michelson-interferometer.png]]</div>
2: The '''Michelson interferometer''' is the classic setup for optical [[interferome...
4: ...most purposes, the geometry of the [[Mach-Zehnder interferometer]] is more useful.

Sagnac interferometer (1146 bytes)
1: A '''Sagnac [[interferometer]]''' consists of an optical ring [[cavity resonat...
3: If, however, the interferometer is rotating, then the light which goes round in t...
5: ...detect changes in the [[angular velocity]] of the interferometer.
9: [[de:Sagnac-Interferometer]]

Mach-Zehnder interferometer (1361 bytes)
1: The '''Mach-Zehnder interferometer''' is used to determine the [[phase shift]] cause...
3: There are - in contrast to the [[Michelson interferometer]] - two detectors A and B.
5: ...ender-interferometer.gif|right|frame|Mach-Zehnder interferometer.]]

Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer (786 bytes)
1: ... the large number of telescopes in the array, the interferometer will be able to make accurate images of complex a...

Interferometry (4027 bytes)
3: ...research, while the [[Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer]] may have an array of up to 10 optical telescope...
5: ==Interferometer==
6: An '''interferometer''' works on the principle that two [[wave]]s that...
8: ...e basic building blocks of a laboratory Michelson interferometer are a monochromatic light source, usually a [[las...
10: [[Image:Interferometer.png|right]]

VIRGO (physics) (282 bytes)
1: ...y]], a [[Albert Michelson|Michelson]] [[laser]] [[interferometer]] that is very analogous to [[LIGO]].

Cosmic Background Imager (279 bytes)
1: ... '''Cosmic Background Imager''' is a 13-element [[interferometer]] perched at an elevation of 5000 [[metre]]s on t...

Hanbury-Brown and Twiss effect (458 bytes)
3: [[Image:Correlation-interferometer.png]]

LISA (astronomy) (1475 bytes)
7: ...itself &mdash; or actually 3 spaceborne Michelson interferometers.
17: [[de:Laser Interferometer Space Antenna]]

LIGO (3061 bytes)
3: '''LIGO''' stands for '''Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory'''. Cofounded in [...
7: ...miles) on each side. Precision laser beams in the interferometer sense small motions of the mirrors, which are cau...
9: ..., there is a smaller, though no less complicated, interferometer housed in parallel. This second detector is half...

Lowell Observatory (1588 bytes)
5: ...) Hall Telescope and the [[Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer]] (NPOI).
15: ...fs.navy.mil/projects/npoi/ Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer]

MERLIN (2221 bytes)
3: The '''Multi-Element Radio Linked [[Interferometer]] Network''' ('''MERLIN''') is an array of [[radi...
60: ...//www.merlin.ac.uk The Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network]

Charles Fabry (555 bytes)
3: ...He contributed to inventing the [[Fabry-Perot]] [[interferometer]].

Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope (COAST) (630 bytes)
1: ...Synthesis Telescope, is a multi-element optical [[interferometer]] with baselines of up to 100 metres, designed to...

Terrestrial Planet Finder (2403 bytes)
7: ...ulate a much larger, very powerful telescope. The interferometer would utilize a technique called nulling to reduc...

Einstein@home (814 bytes)
1: ...d to search data collected by [[LIGO]] (the Laser Interferometer Gravitationalwave Observatory) in the [[United St...

William Stephen Finsen (914 bytes)
3: ...lanet)|Mars]]. He developed the Finsen [[eyepiece interferometer]] to measure very close double stars. He was the ...

Fabry-Perot (3400 bytes)
3: In [[optics]], a '''Fabry-Perot interferometer''' or '''etalon''' is typically made of a transpa...
37: A Fabry-Perot interferometer differs from a Fabry-Perot etalon in the fact tha...
39: Fabry-Perot interferometers or etalons are used in [[spectroscopy]], [[laser...

Aperture synthesis (1158 bytes)
1: ...paration and orientation, the lobe-pattern of the interferometer produces an output which is a Fourier Transform o...

Merlin (1262 bytes)
11: *[[MERLIN]] is the Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network.

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