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Infinite sum of transmitted parallel light fields
I'm currently studying
optics and came across the possibility of retrieving the original electric (light field) from a pair of partially reflecting mirrors, but I am confused by several ...
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Michelson interferometer: beam division
so I'm working on the Michelson interferometer for a presentation, and I'm having trouble understanding how does the beamsplitter splits the incoming beam.
Let's consider the incoming bean as a ...
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Why is interference there when pulses do not overlap in space and time?
Why is there interference present between the two pulses when looking at the spectrum, if they clearly do not overlap in time, and assumingly in space as well (since $x=ct$)?
The spectrum is detected ...
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