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  2. Optical flat - Wikipedia

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    When wringing first begins, there is a large angle in the air wedge and the fringes will resemble grid topography-lines. If the fringes are straight; then the surface is flat. If the surfaces are allowed to fully wring and become parallel, the straight fringes will widen until only a dark fringe remains, and they will disappear completely.

  3. Birefringence - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, no light from the source will be accepted by the analyzer, and the field will appear dark. Areas of the sample possessing birefringence will generally couple some of the x-polarized light into the y polarization; these areas will then appear bright against the dark background. Modifications to this basic principle can differentiate ...

  4. List of optics equations - Wikipedia

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    Visulization of flux through differential area and solid angle. As always ^ is the unit normal to the incident surface A, = ^, and ^ is a unit vector in the direction of incident flux on the area element, θ is the angle between them.

  5. Optics - Wikipedia

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    The bright fringes occur along lines where black lines intersect with black lines and white lines intersect with white lines. These fringes are separated by angle θ and are numbered as order n. Diffraction is the process by which light interference is most commonly observed.

  6. Newton's rings - Wikipedia

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    The above formula is also applicable for dark rings for the ring pattern obtained by transmitted light. Given the radial distance of a bright ring, r , and a radius of curvature of the lens, R , the air gap between the glass surfaces, t , is given to a good approximation by

  7. Fringe shift - Wikipedia

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    It was calculated to result in a offset arrival time at the detector and a phase shift of 0.4 wavelengths. This means that as the interferometer's arms were spun to face into and against the aether wind, the vertical fringe lines should have moved across the viewer 0.4 fringe widths left and right for a total of 0.8 fringes from maximum to minimum.

  8. Chromatic aberration - Wikipedia

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    Since the focal length of the lens varies with the color of the light different colors of light are brought to focus at different distances from the lens or with different levels of magnification. Chromatic aberration manifests itself as "fringes" of color along boundaries that separate dark and bright parts of the image.

  9. Haidinger fringe - Wikipedia

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    Haidinger fringes are interference fringes formed by the interference of monochromatic and coherent light to form visible dark and bright fringes. Fringe localization is the region of space where fringes with reasonably good contrast are observed. [further explanation needed] Haidinger fringes are fringes localized at infinity.