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Must the two arms of a MM interferometer be equal for fringes to appear? What is the tolerance on that? Would that give the length of the wave packets?
Arm length tolerance in Michelson-Morley interferometer
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The tolerance is given by the spatial longitudinal extent of the wavepacket.exmarine said:What is the tolerance on that? Would that give the length of the wave packets?
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A relevant quantity is the coherence length of the light.
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