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The underlying Michelson-Morley experiment [12.1] was made possible in an interferometer designed by Michelson for atomic spectroscopy in his attempt to establish a new meter standard using a suitably narrow spectral line, the red-line singlet not doublet of cadmium, via measuring visibility of a resultant two-beam interference pattern (see Chap. 3): \( {\text{V}} = \left( {{\text{I}}_{\hbox{max} } {-}{\text{I}}_{\hbox{min} } } \right)/\left( {{\text{I}}_{\hbox{max} } + {\text{I}}_{\hbox{min} } } \right) \).
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Resolution 1 of the 17th Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures (CGPM), 1983.
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Bukshtab, M. (2019). Spectroscopic Interferometry and Laser-Excitation Spectroscopy. In: Photometry, Radiometry, and Measurements of Optical Losses. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 209. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7745-6_12
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