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In Chapter 11 we are essentially concerned with two whole microscopical beams (rather than individual rays) that are deliberately caused to interfere with each other. The graphic result is a pattern of interference fringes analogous to Newton’s rings.(1) With incident white light, the fringes are from Newton’s series of color bands more or less superimposed on the pictorial image. Figure 11.1 for example shows three different micrographs of the same surface area of crystalline grains.(2) All three micrographs were taken on the same simple microscopical interferometer, shown schematically in Figure 2. Micrograph (a) in Figure 11.1 was taken with practically no tilting angle α to the reference surface [see reference reflector (4) in Figure 11.2]; hence there was practically no interference. Incidentally the reference beam was sufficiently out of phase with the specimen’s beam to produce interference contrast. Thus interference microscopy is related to phase-amplitude contrast (see Chapter 10).
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Rochow, T.G., Tucker, P.A. (1994). Interference Microscopy. In: Introduction to Microscopy by Means of Light, Electrons, X Rays, or Acoustics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1513-9_11
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