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    In optics, a FabryPérot interferometer (FPI) or etalon is an optical cavity made from two parallel reflecting surfaces (i.e.: thin mirrors). Optical waves...
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    illustrates the Fizeau, Mach–Zehnder, and FabryPérot interferometers. Other examples of amplitude splitting interferometer include the Michelson, Twyman–Green...
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    Fabry–Pérot interferometer in 1899. The French Academy of Sciences awarded him the Janssen Medal for 1912. The Royal Society awarded Fabry and Perot the...
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    Together with Alfred Pérot he invented the FabryPérot interferometer. He is also one of the co-discoverers of the ozone layer. Charles Fabry was born in Marseille...
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    Michelson interferometers exhibit a number of advantages and disadvantages when compared with competing technologies such as FabryPérot interferometers or Lyot...
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  • vacuum wavelength of light. For a linear cavity, such as the Fabry-Pérot interferometer discussed below, L = 2 l {\displaystyle L=2l} , where L {\displaystyle...
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  • interference. The physics is similar to that of transmission in FabryPérot interferometer in optics, where the resonance condition and functional form of...
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  • Diffraction-grating interferometer (white light) Double-slit interferometer Dual-polarization interferometry FabryPérot interferometer Fizeau interferometer Fourier-transform...
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    investigation planned to use ground-based correlative measurements. The FabryPérot interferometer (FPI) was a high-resolution remote sensing instrument designed...
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  • The Lummer–Gehrcke interferometer or Lummer–Gehrcke plate is a multiple-beam interferometer similar to the FabryPérot etalon, but using light at a steep...
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    rotation. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) consisted of two 4-km Michelson–FabryPérot interferometers, and operated at a...
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    analogue of selective wavelength attenuation as seen with the FabryPérot interferometer, and can be seen in oil films on water and soap bubbles. Iridescence...
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    sides by e i 2 π N . {\displaystyle e^{i{\frac {2\pi }{N}}}.} The FabryPérot interferometer uses interference between multiple reflections. A diffraction...
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  • Norway – outboard motor Charles Fabry (1867–1945), together with Alfred Perot (1863–1925), France – FabryPérot interferometer (physics) Samuel Face (1923–2001)...
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  • Thumbnail for Gires–Tournois etalon
    pulse compression and nonlinear Michelson interferometer. Gires–Tournois etalons are closely related to FabryPérot etalons. This can be seen by examining...
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    spectroscopy and doppler spectroscopy of zodiacal light using a FabryPérot interferometer based at the Teide Observatory in Tenerife. His research was initially...
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    effect. Some devices use this to generate multiple reflections: FabryPérot interferometer Laser (which contains an optical cavity) 3D kaleidoscope to concentrate...
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    spectroscopy where it is used to analyze diffraction patterns (e.g. see FabryPérot interferometer). The probability density function of the wrapped Cauchy distribution...
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  • of three solar coronagraphs with nested fields of view: C1 - a FabryPérot interferometer coronagraph imaging from 1.1 to 3 solar radii, non-functional...
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    itself. The plane-parallel resonator is also the basis of the FabryPérot interferometer. For a resonator with two mirrors with radii of curvature R1 and...
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    use of a FabryPérot interferometer, with light from a source (placed in a magnetic field) being passed between two mirrors of the interferometer. If δD...
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    attempts to absorb all energy except for that in the passband). (See FabryPérot interferometer for a mathematical description of the effect.) Where white light...
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  • hologram. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) consisted of two 4-km Michelson–FabryPérot interferometers, and operated at a...
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    cavities in the form of a pair of facing mirrors, which constitute a FabryPérot interferometer. The gain medium in the cavity (such as a crystal) emits light...
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    Sound amplification by stimulated emission of radiation Spaser FabryPérot interferometer Ultrashort pulse laser Taylor, Nick (2000). Laser: The Inventor...
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    near-infrared FabryPérot interferometer. It has many narrow band filters, including H2, [Fe II], and [SiVI]. It is unique among astronomical Fabry-Pérot devices...
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    asymmetry of thermospheric winds from 9-year measurements with a FabryPerot interferometer in Tromsø, Norway". Earth, Planets and Space. 75 (1): 70. Bibcode:2023EP&S...
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    soap bubble or in thin oil films on water. Applications include FabryPérot interferometers, antireflection coatings, and optical filters. A quantitative...
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    Interference fringes, showing fine structure (splitting) of a cooled deuterium source, viewed through a FabryPérot interferometer....
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    transverse Zeeman effect. (C) With magnetic field, split as longitudinal Zeeman effect. The spectral lines were obtained using a FabryPérot interferometer....
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