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Mach-Zehnder interferometer |
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Mach-Zehnder interferometer [′mäk ′tsān·dər ‚in·tər·fə′räm·əd·ər] (optics) A variation of the Michelson interferometer used mainly in measuring the spatial variation of the index of refraction of a gas; the device has two semitransparent mirrors and two wholly reflecting mirrors at alternate corners of a rectangle, and half the beam travels along each side of the rectangle. Also known as Mach refractometer. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The Maryland experiment and one of the Garching experiments involve Mach-Zehnder interferometers, devices that take an incoming light pulse from a laser, split it in two with a half-silvered mirror, send the two halves over different paths and recombine them. At the heart of the modulator is Mach-Zehnder Interferometer To look for single-photon interferences, the experimenters inserted into the experiment an arrangement of transparent cyrstals that makes the experiment into waht is called a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. |
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