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Different forms of interferometer are now used for a large number of very different purposes - high precision metrology, measurements of refractive index and density, optical testing, surface studies and microscopy, amongst others. Only two types are important for high resolution spectroscopy: the Fabry-Perot and the Michelson. The Fabry-Perot is a multiple-beam interferometer, capable of extremely high resolution from the near infra-red to the quartz ultra-violet. The Michelson is a two-beam interferometer whose present importance comes from its use as a scanning instrument in Fourier transform spectroscopy. Many other types of interferometer in current use are variations of the Michelson, and one of these, the Mach-Zehnder, is used as a refractometer for the measurement of oscillator strengths (section 12.4) and electron densities in plasmas.
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Thorne, A.P. (1988). Interferometers. In: Spectrophysics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1193-2_7
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