Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Interference: A Primer 3. Two-Beam Interferometers 4. Source-Size and Spectral Effects 5. Multiple-Beam Interference 6. The Laser as a Light Source 7. Photodetectors 8. Measurements of Length 9. Optical Testing 10. Digital Techniques 11. Macro- and Micro-Interferometry 12. White-Light Interference Microscopy 13. Holographic and Speckle Interferometry 14. Interferometric Sensors 15. Interference Spectroscopy 16. Fourier-Transform Spectroscopy 17. Interference with Single Photons 18. Building an Interferometer

Appendix A. Monochromatic Light Waves B. Phase Shifts on Reflections C. Diffraction D. Polarized Light E. The Pancharatnam Phase F. The Twyman-Green Interferometer: Initial Adjustment G. The Mach-Zehnder Interferometer: Initial Adjustment

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About the Author

Professor P. Hariharan is a Research Fellow in the Division of Telecommunications and Industrial Physics of CSIRO in Sydney and a Visiting Professor at the University of Sydney. His main research interests are interferometry and holography. He is a Fellow of SPIE (The International Society for Optical Engineering), the Optical Society of America (OSA), the Institute of Physics, London, and the Royal Photographic Society. He was a vice-president and then the treasurer of the International Commission of Optics, as well as a director of SPIE. Honors he has received include OSA’s Joseph Fraunhofer Award, the Henderson Medal of the Royal Photographic Society, the Thomas Young Medal of the Institute of Physics, London, SPIE’s Dennis Gabor Award and, most recently, SPIE’s highest award, the Gold Medal.