Preface |
Acknowledgments |
Introduction / 1: |
Interference: A Primer / 2: |
Light Waves / 2.1: |
Intensity in an Interference Pattern / 2.2: |
Visibility of Interference Fringes / 2.3: |
Interference with a Point Source / 2.4: |
Localization of Fringes / 2.5: |
Summary / 2.6: |
Problems / 2.7: |
Two-Beam Interferometers / 3: |
Wavefront Division / 3.1: |
Amplitude Division / 3.2: |
The Rayleigh Interferometer / 3.3: |
The Michelson Interferometer / 3.4: |
Fringes Formed with a Point Source / 3.4.1: |
Fringes Formed with an Extended Source / 3.4.2: |
Fringes Formed with Collimated Light / 3.4.3: |
Applications / 3.4.4: |
The Mach-Zehnder Interferometer / 3.5: |
The Sagnac Interferometer / 3.6: |
Light Sources / 3.7: |
Coherence / 4.1: |
Source-Size Effects / 4.2: |
Slit Source / 4.2.1: |
Circular Pinhole / 4.2.2: |
Spectral Effects / 4.3: |
Polarization Effects / 4.4: |
White-Light Fringes / 4.5: |
Channeled Spectra / 4.6: |
Multiple-Beam Interference / 4.7: |
Multiple-Beam Fringes by Transmission / 5.1: |
Multiple-Beam Fringes by Reflection / 5.2: |
Multiple-Beam Fringes of Equal Thickness / 5.3: |
Fringes of Equal Chromatic Order (FECO Fringes) / 5.4: |
The Fabry-Perot Interferometer / 5.5: |
The Laser as a Light Source / 5.6: |
Lasers for Interferometry / 6.1: |
Laser Modes / 6.2: |
Single-Wavelength Operation of Lasers / 6.3: |
Polarization of Laser Beams / 6.4: |
Wavelength Stabilization of Lasers / 6.5: |
Laser Beam Expansion / 6.6: |
Problems with Laser Sources / 6.7: |
Laser Safety / 6.8: |
Detectors / 6.9: |
Photomultipliers / 7.1: |
Photodiodes / 7.2: |
Charge-Coupled Detector Arrays / 7.3: |
Linear CCD Sensors / 7.3.1: |
Area CCD Sensors / 7.3.2: |
Frame-Transfer CCD Sensors / 7.3.3: |
Photoconductive Detectors / 7.4: |
Pyroelectric Detectors / 7.5: |
Measurements of Length / 7.6: |
The Definition of the Metre / 8.1: |
Length Measurements / 8.2: |
The Fractional-Fringe Method / 8.2.1: |
Fringe Counting / 8.2.2: |
Heterodyne Techniques / 8.2.3: |
Synthetic Long-Wavelength Signals / 8.2.4: |
Laser Frequency Modulation / 8.2.5: |
Environmental Effects / 8.2.6: |
Measurement of Changes in Length / 8.3: |
Phase Compensation / 8.3.1: |
Heterodyne Methods / 8.3.2: |
Optical Testing / 8.4: |
The Fizeau Interferometer / 9.1: |
The Twyman-Green Interferometer / 9.2: |
Analysis of Wavefront Aberrations / 9.3: |
Laser Unequal-Path Interferometers / 9.4: |
The Point-Diffraction Interferometer / 9.5: |
Shearing Interferometers / 9.6: |
Lateral Shearing Interferometers / 9.6.1: |
Radial Shearing Interferometers / 9.6.2: |
Digital Techniques / 9.7: |
Digital Fringe Analysis / 10.1: |
Digital Phase Measurements / 10.2: |
Testing Aspheric Surfaces / 10.3: |
Direct Measurements of Surface Shape / 10.3.1: |
Long-Wavelength Tests / 10.3.2: |
Tests with Shearing Interferometers / 10.3.3: |
Tests with Computer-Generated Holograms / 10.3.4: |
Macro- and Micro-Interferometry / 10.4: |
Interferometry of Refractive Index Fields / 11.1: |
Interference Microscopy / 11.2: |
Two-Beam Interference Microscopes / 11.4: |
The Nomarski Interferometer / 11.6: |
Holographic and Speckle Interferometry / 11.7: |
Holographic Interferometry / 12.1: |
Holographic Nondestructive Testing / 12.2: |
Holographic Strain Analysis / 12.3: |
Holographic Vibration Analysis / 12.4: |
Speckle Interferometry / 12.5: |
Electronic Speckle-Pattern Interferometry / 12.6: |
Studies of Vibrating Objects / 12.7: |
Interferometric Sensors / 12.8: |
Laser-Doppler Interferometry / 13.1: |
Measurements of Vibration Amplitudes / 13.2: |
Fiber Interferometers / 13.3: |
Rotation Sensing / 13.4: |
Interference Spectroscopy / 13.5: |
Resolving Power and Etendue / 14.1: |
The Scanning Fabry-Perot Interferometer / 14.2: |
The Confocal Fabry-Perot Interferometer / 14.2.2: |
The Multiple-Pass Fabry-Perot Interferometer / 14.2.3: |
Interference Filters / 14.3: |
Birefringent Filters / 14.4: |
Interference Wavelength Meters / 14.5: |
Fourier-Transform Spectroscopy / 14.6: |
The Multiplex Advantage / 15.1: |
Theory of Fourier-Transform Spectroscopy / 15.2: |
Practical Aspects of Fourier-Transform Spectroscopy / 15.3: |
Computation of the Spectrum / 15.4: |
Applications of Fourier-Transform Spectroscopy / 15.5: |
Choosing an Interferometer / 15.6: |
Monochromatic Light Waves / A: |
Complex Representation / A.1: |
Optical Intensity / A.2: |
Phase Shifts on Reflection / B: |
Diffraction / C: |
Diffraction Gratings / C.1: |
Polarized Light / D: |
Production of Polarized Light / D.1: |
Quarter-Wave and Half-Wave Plates / D.2: |
Adjustment of the Mach-Zehnder Interferometer / E: |
Fourier Transforms and Correlation / G: |
Fourier Transforms / G.1: |
Correlation / G.2: |
Quasi-Monochromatic Light / H: |
The Mutual Coherence Function / H.2: |
Complex Degree of Coherence / H.3: |
Visibility of the Interference Fringes / H.4: |
Spatial Coherence / H.5: |
Temporal Coherence / H.6: |
Coherence Length / H.7: |
Heterodyne Interferometry / I: |
Laser Frequency Shifting / J: |
Evaluation of Shearing Interferograms / K: |
Phase-Stepping Interferometry / K.1: |
Holographic Imaging / M: |
Hologram Recording / M.1: |
Image Reconstruction / M.2: |
Laser Speckle / N: |
Index / O: |
Preface |
Acknowledgments |
Introduction / 1: |
Interference: A Primer / 2: |
Light Waves / 2.1: |
Intensity in an Interference Pattern / 2.2: |