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In Chap. 2, we discussed optical instruments that relied mainly on ray optics. Here we treat instruments whose operation depends on wave phenomena. These include division-of-amplitude and division-of-wavefront techniques, the physics of which was the subject of Chap. 4.
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Young, M. (1986). Interferometry and Related Areas. In: Optics and Lasers. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-37456-5_5
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