List of types of interferometers

An interferometer is a device for extracting information from the superposition of multiple waves.

Field and linear interferometers[]

• Air-wedge shearing interferometer
• Astronomical interferometer / Michelson stellar interferometer
• Classical interference microscopy
• (white light)
• Double-slit interferometer
• Dual-polarization interferometry
• Fabry–Pérot interferometer
• Fizeau interferometer
• Fourier-transform interferometer
• (e.g. , Fresnel mirror or Lloyd's mirror)
• interferometer (FECO)
• Gires–Tournois etalon
• (see heterodyne)
• Holographic interferometer
• Jamin interferometer
• Laser Doppler vibrometer
• Linnik interferometer (microscopy)
• LUPI variant of Michelson
• Lummer–Gehrcke interferometer
• Mach–Zehnder interferometer
• Martin–Puplett interferometer
• Michelson interferometer
• Mirau interferometer (also known as a Mirau objective) (microscopy)
• (see moiré pattern)
• (microscopy)
• (see Newton's rings)
• Nonlinear Michelson interferometer / Step-phase Michelson interferometer
• N-slit interferometer
• Planar lightwave circuit interferometer (PLC)
• Photon Doppler velocimeter interferometer (PDV)
• (see also Babinet–Soleil compensator)
• Point diffraction interferometer
• Rayleigh interferometer
• Sagnac interferometer
• Schlieren interferometer (phase-shifting)
• Shearing interferometer (lateral and radial)
• Twyman–Green interferometer
• Watson interferometer (microscopy)
• (see also Optical coherence tomography)
• (white-light) (microscopy)
• Young's double-slit interferometer
• Zernike phase-contrast microscopy

Intensity and nonlinear interferometers[]

• intensity interferometer
• intensity optical correlator
• frequency-resolved optical gating (FROG)
• Spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction (SPIDER)

Quantum optics interferometers[]

• (HOM) (see Hong–Ou–Mandel effect)
• Hanbury–Brown Twiss interferometer

Interferometers outside optics[]

• Acoustic interferometer
• Atom interferometer
• Neutron interferometer
• Ramsey interferometer
• Aharonov–Bohm effect
• Interferometric synthetic-aperture radar (a radar-based 3-d surface mapping)
• Superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs)
• White–Juday warp-field interferometer

See also[]

• Atacama Large Millimeter Array

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