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  2. Optical path length - Wikipedia

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    A difference in OPL between two paths is often called the optical path difference (OPD). OPL and OPD are important because they determine the phase of the light and govern interference and diffraction of light as it propagates. In a medium of constant refractive index, n, the OPL for a path of geometrical length s is just

  3. Interference colour chart - Wikipedia

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    The optical path difference (o.p.d.) is defined as ... =, where t is the thickness of the sample. This then leads to a phase difference between the light passing in the two vibration directions of = (/).

  4. Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy - Wikipedia

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    The difference in optical path length between the two arms to the interferometer is known as the retardation or optical path difference (OPD). An interferogram is obtained by varying the retardation and recording the signal from the detector for various values of the retardation .

  5. Optical path - Wikipedia

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    Optical path (OP) is the trajectory that a light ray follows as it propagates through an optical medium. The geometrical optical-path length or simply geometrical path length ( GPD ) is the length of a segment in a given OP, i.e., the Euclidean distance integrated along a ray between any two points. [ 1 ]

  6. Diffraction - Wikipedia

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    The path difference is approximately ⁡ so that the minimum intensity occurs at an angle given by ⁡ =, where is the width of the slit, is the angle of incidence at which the minimum intensity occurs, and is the wavelength of the light.

  7. Interferometry - Wikipedia

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    The resulting interference fringes give information about the difference in optical path lengths. In analytical science, interferometers are used to measure lengths and the shape of optical components with nanometer precision; they are the highest-precision length measuring instruments in existence.

  8. Double-slit experiment - Wikipedia

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    When the two waves are in phase, i.e. the path difference is equal to an integral number of wavelengths, the summed amplitude, and therefore the summed intensity is maximum, and when they are in anti-phase, i.e. the path difference is equal to half a wavelength, one and a half wavelengths, etc., then the two waves cancel and the summed ...

  9. Diffraction grating - Wikipedia

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    A blazed diffraction grating reflecting only the green portion of the spectrum from a room's fluorescent lighting. For a diffraction grating, the relationship between the grating spacing (i.e., the distance between adjacent grating grooves or slits), the angle of the wave (light) incidence to the grating, and the diffracted wave from the grating is known as the grating equation.