description: Colored and monochromatic fringes in a Michelson interferometer. (a) White light fringes where the two beams differ in the number of phase inversions. The fringe representing equal path length is dark and surrounded by a symmetrical pattern of colored fringes. (b) White light fringes where the two beams have experienced the same number of phase inversions. The fringe representing equal path length is bright. (c) Fringe pattern using monochromatic light (sodium D lines)
Replaced figure (a) with photo of real fringes rather than simulated fringes. Source File:Weißlichtinterferogramm.jpg uploaded by Membeth as a public domain image.
author: [[User:Stigmatella aurantiaca]]
source: This is a montage of (a) my own work (b) [[:File:MichelsonCoinAirLumiereBlanche.JPG]] uploaded by Alain Le Rille under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic, and (c) [[:File:SodiumD two dou...
The previous version was encoded as RGBA. That was unnecessary, as this image is entirely opaque. I corrected it to RGB with the help of OxiPNG and ZopfliPNG.