| DCS # | DEMONSTRATION | REFERENCE | ABSTRACT |
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| 6D40.00 | Interferometers | | |
| 6D40.10 | Michelson interferometer | PIRA 200 | Use a Michelson interferometer with either laser or white light. |
| 6D40.10 | Michelson interferometer | 6D40.10 | Pass laser light through a commercial interferometer onto the wall. Can also be done with white light. |
| 6D40.10 | Michelson interferometer modified | AJP 30(8),604 | The Cenco M3 interferometer is modified to obtain good results without the clock drive (AJP 27,520 (1959)). |
| 6D40.10 | Michelson interferometer | Ol-19 | Use a Michelson interferometer with either laser or white light. |
| 6D40.10 | Michelson interferometer | 35-2.7 | The Michelson interferometer. |
| 6D40.10 | Michelson interferometer | L-72 | Project colored fringes from white light onto a screen, insert a hot object in one path. |
| 6D40.10 | Michelson interferometer -white ligh | Disc 23-20 | A commercial interferometer with white light. Both circular and line fringes are shown. |
| 6D40.11 | interferometer - large class | AJP 39(9),1091 | Use a laser with the Michelson interferometer and expand the exit beam with a microscope objective. |
| 6D40.12 | Michelson interferometer - power | AJP 35(2),161 | Measure the power of solar cells in the two outputs of the Michelson interferometer. |
| 6D40.13 | Michelson interferometer alignment | AJP 39(11),1395 | Hints on alignment techniques. |
| 6D40.15 | interference fringes with audio | PIRA 1000 | |
| 6D40.15 | interference fringes with audio | AJP 47(4),378 | A photocell detector detects fringes and the output is converted to an audio signal. |
| 6D40.16 | Michelson - advanced topics | AJP 39(4),412 | Use
the Michelson interferometer to demonstrate graphically the Fourier transform
nature of Fraunhoffer diffraction and introduce basic concepts of coherent
optics. |
| 6D40.20 | microwave interferometer | PIRA 500 | |
| 6D40.20 | microwave interferometer | 33-7.6 | Thorough discussion of the microwave interferometer including using it to calibrate a meter stick. |
| 6D40.21 | microwave interferometer | 33-7.4 | Three microwave interferometers: Lloyd's mirror, Michelson's interferometer, grid-detection interferometer, are shown. Pictures. |
| 6D40.22 | microwave interferometer | AJP 33(11),924 | Use
4 cm microwaves and 10" square platforms of plexiglass to demonstrate Lloyd's
mirror, Michelson's interferometer, and grid-detection interferometers on
the overhead. |
| 6D40.25 | microwave interferometer | 6D40.25 | Demonstrate an interferometer using chicken wire mirrors and a 12 cm microwave. |
| 6D40.25 | microwave Michelson interferometer | Ol-20 | Make a microwave Michelson interferometer with window screen reflectors and a chicken wire half reflector. |
| 6D40.30 | Jamin interferometer | 35-2.10 | The two mirrors are adjustable about mutually perpendicular axes. |
| 6D40.30 | Jamin interferometer | 35-2.9 | Use second surface mirrors at and angle generate parallel beams in this interferometer. |
| 6D40.35 | Sagnac interferometer - real fringes | AJP 29(10),669 | Real
fringes are observed with the Sagnac interferometer with both a point source
and an extended source. Virtual fringes require an extended source. Also
applies to Michelson interferometer. |
| 6D40.35 | Fabry-Perot interferometer | AJP 30(10),724 | Construction
details for a Fabry-Perot interferometer. Applications: optical measurements,
index of refraction of a gas, and the Zeeman effect. |
| 6D40.40 | triangular interferometer | 35-2.8 | The triangular interferometer is explained. Diagrams, Construction details in appendix, p. 1353. |
| 6D40.42 | coupled cavity interferometer | AJP 43(11),940 | A prism mounted on a phonograph turntable is used to rapidly vary the path length of the external cavity. |
| 6D40.45 | coherence length | AJP 33(6),487 | Use a long path interferometer to demonstrate the coherence length is at least 12 m. Also transverse coherence. |
| 6D40.45 | long path interferometer | 36-4.1 | The movable mirror can be at least 6 m away giving a coherence length of 12 m. |
| 6D40.46 | long path interferometer | 36-4.2 | A
long path interferometer uses corner reflectors instead of mirrors and the
output beam is directed onto a photodetector feeding an audio oscillator. |
| 6D40.47 | double ended interferometer | 36-4.3 | Demonstrates the coherence of beams emitted from opposite ends of the laser tube. |
| 6D40.48 | transverse coherence | 36-4.4 | Misaligning the mirrors still gives fringes. |
| 6D40.49 | thick reflecting plate | 36-4.5 | Interference
from waves reflected off two sides of a plate, limited to thin films in ordinary
light, works in thick glass with lasers. |
| 6D40.50 | Fresnel interferometers | 35-2.11 | Two different setups of Fresnel interferometers are discussed. |
| 6D40.54 | Mylar Fabry- Perot interferometer | AJP 35(3),265 | Design of an interferometer using metalized mylar as mirrors. |
| 6D40.54 | inexpensive Fabry-Perot | AJP 35(3),xxii | Use standard "one-way" mirrors. |
| 6D40.54 | low cost Fabry-Perot interferometer | AJP 33(7),532 | Construction of Fabry-Perot devices from microscope cover glasses and plate glass. |
| 6D40.54 | medium cost Fabry-Perot | AJP 33(12),1088 | Use Pyrex optical flats. |
| 6D40.54 | low cost Fabry-Perot | AJP 36(1),ix | Use surplus optically flat circular plates. |
| 6D40.54 | low cost comment | AJP 33(12),1090 | Spacings up to 1/4" are possible. |
| 6D40.55 | Fabry-Perot etalon | O-10d | Directions for construction an inexpensive Fabry-Perot etalon. Reference: AJP 36(1),ix. |
| 6D40.56 | Fabry-Perot interferometer | AJP 59(11),992 | Add some mirrors to a commercially made linear positioning stage. |
| 6D40.57 | simple gauge-length interferometer | AJP 52(6),563 | A simple low-cost interferometer using only manufacturers' stock components. |
| 6D40.60 | listening to doppler shift of light | AJP 49(5),477 | Light
from a laser beam is reflected off fixed and movable mirrors is mixed on
a photodetector and the resulting signal is amplified and drives a speaker. |
| 6D40.60 | satellite tracking using doppler | 19-6.7 | Beats between a generator and Sputnik I are recorded and played back while projecting a spot on a map indicating position. |
| 6D40.60 | spherical mirror interferometer | 35-2.12 | An interferometer with two spherical mirrors is designed to show wind around objects, heat effects, and strain effects. |
| 6D40.61 | optical doppler shift | AJP 44(4),391 | Show the frequency shift of a laser beam bouncing off a moving mirror with a spectrum analyzer. |
| 6D40.61 | doppler effect with light | AJP 46(7),763 | Using
a laser beam, retroreflector on a moving air track, beam splitter, and stationary
mirror, observe the signal of the beat pattern from a silicon photodiode
on an oscilloscope. |
| 6D40.62 | doppler radar | AJP 37(7),744 | Diagram of apparatus for Doppler radar. The reflector is mounted on a 1/32 scale slot car. |
| 6D40.62 | doppler shift with microwaves | AJP 33(6),499 | Some of the transmitted signal and the signal received after reflection off a moving object are fed to a mixer. |
| 6D40.70 | complicated doppler shift setups | 19-6.8 | Sophisticated Doppler shift experiments with construction details, diagrams, and 7 references. |