The flip causes a tiny shift in the cantilever's vibration frequency, which is recorded by the laser interferometer. |
The Shack cube interferometer is used to test converging wavefronts at the center of curvature of a reflective surface. |
This dynamic interferometer with a holographic optical element produces four phase-shifted interferograms imaged on a single detector. |
The resolving power of the interferometer is found to be somewhat more than double that of a telescope of the same aperture. |
Ideally, the light field for such an interferometer is considered to be a monochromatic plane wave of infinite lateral extension. |
By applying the interferometer method to Capella, arc distances of much less than one-twentieth of a second of arc were measured. |