Consider the Michelson stellar interferometer. Under what conditions will the fringes vanish when the light comes from

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Consider the Michelson stellar interferometer. Under what conditions will the fringes vanish when the light comes from two equally bright stars? Compare this to the situation in which there is only one uniformly bright star of adequately large angular size. Write expressions for the angles subtended at the device by the sources in both cases.

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Optics

ISBN: 978-0133977226

5th edition

Authors: Eugene Hecht

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