List of types of interferometers
An
interferometer
is a device for extracting information from the superposition of multiple waves.
Field and linear interferometers
Air-wedge shearing interferometer
Astronomical interferometer
/
Michelson stellar interferometer
Classical interference microscopy
Bath interferometer (common path)
Cyclic interferometer
Diffraction-grating interferometer (white light)
Double-slit interferometer
Dual-polarization interferometry
Fabry–Pérot interferometer
Fizeau interferometer
Fourier-transform interferometer
Fresnel interferometer (e.g. Fresnel biprism,
Fresnel mirror
or
Lloyd's mirror
)
Fringes of Equal Chromatic Order interferometer (FECO)
Gabor hologram
Gires–Tournois etalon
Heterodyne interferometer (see
heterodyne
)
Holographic interferometer
Jamin interferometer
Laser Doppler vibrometer
Linnik interferometer
(microscopy)
LUPI variant of Michelson
Lummer–Gehrcke interferometer
Mach–Zehnder interferometer
Martin–Puplett interferometer
Michelson interferometer
Mirau interferometer
(also known as a Mirau objective) (microscopy)
Moiré interferometer (see
moiré pattern
)
Multi-beam interferometer (
microscopy
)
Near-field interferometer
Newton interferometer (see
Newton's rings
)
Nomarski interferometer
Nonlinear
Michelson interferometer
/ Step-phase
Michelson interferometer
N-slit interferometer
Phase-shifting interferometer
Planar lightwave circuit interferometer
(PLC)
Photon Doppler velocimeter interferometer
(PDV)
Polarization interferometer (see also
Babinet–Soleil compensator
)
Point diffraction interferometer
Rayleigh interferometer
Sagnac interferometer
Schlieren interferometer
(phase-shifting)
Shearing interferometer
(lateral and radial)
Twyman–Green interferometer
Talbot–Lau interferometer
Watson interferometer
(microscopy)
White-light interferometer (see also
Optical coherence tomography
,
White light interferometry
, and
Coherence Scanning Interferometry
)
White-light scatterplate interferometer (white-light) (microscopy)
Young's double-slit interferometer
Zernike phase-contrast microscopy
ZWF interferometer (microscopy)(see https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.55.7.074110)
Intensity and nonlinear interferometers
intensity interferometer
intensity
optical correlator
frequency-resolved optical gating
(FROG)
Spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction
(SPIDER)
Quantum optics interferometers
Hong–Ou–Mandel interferometer (HOM) (see
Hong–Ou–Mandel effect
)
Franson interferometer
Hanbury–Brown Twiss interferometer
Polariton interferometer
Interferometers outside optics
Acoustic interferometer
Atom interferometer
Neutron interferometer
Ramsey interferometer
Mini grail interferometer
Aharonov–Bohm effect
Interferometric synthetic-aperture radar
(a radar-based 3-d surface mapping)
Superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs)
White–Juday warp-field interferometer
See also
Atacama Large Millimeter Array