In optics, a Fabry–Pérot interferometer (FPI) or etalon is an optical cavity made from two parallel reflecting surfaces (i.e.: thin mirrors). Optical waves...

illustrates the Fizeau, Mach–Zehnder, and Fabry–Pérot interferometers. Other examples of amplitude splitting interferometer include the Michelson, Twyman–Green...

Michelson interferometers exhibit a number of advantages and disadvantages when compared with competing technologies such as Fabry–Pérot interferometers or Lyot...

Alfred Pérot he invented the Fabry–Pérot interferometer. He is also one of the co-discoverers of the ozone layer. Fabry graduated from the École Polytechnique...

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...

Diffraction-grating interferometer (white light) Double-slit interferometer Dual-polarization interferometry Fabry–Pérot interferometer Fizeau interferometer Fourier-transform...

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...

rotation. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) consisted of two 4-km Michelson–Fabry–Pérot interferometers, and operated at a...

interference. The physics is similar to that of transmission in Fabry–Pérot interferometer in optics, where the resonance condition and functional form of...

components. The basic scientific instrument of this type is a Fabry–Pérot interferometer. It uses two mirrors to establish a resonating cavity. It passes...