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Optics > Interference > Interferometry > General Interferometry v



Lloyd's Mirror
    

An interferometer consisting of a flat piece of dielectric or metal which serves as a mirror from which one portion of the wave is reflected. The other portion proceeds directly to the screen. The separation of maxima is given by

(1)

where is the wavelength, but because upon reflection from the mirror, the intensity will be the inverse of that for a double slit interference, namely

(2)

Beamsplitter, Double Slit Interference