16 May 2022 Read the full blog post here: https://www.shanghai-optics.com/lesson-11-fringes-and-interferometers.
We left off in the previous post using water waves to represent the interference that occurs between light waves. A well known experiment having to do with interference of light is the double-slit experiment. In this experiment, light passes through two slits before reaching a screen. Rather than just one band of light, bands of light are separated by dark bands. These light and dark bands are called fringes.
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