White light Sagnac interferometer-a common (path) tale of light

被引:6
作者
Schwartz, Eyal [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Otago, Dodd Walls Ctr Photon & Quantum Technol, Dept Phys, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand
[2] Technion Israel Inst Technol, Dept Phys, IL-3200003 Haifa, Israel
关键词
interferometry; white light; spectroscopy; Fourier transform; coherence; GROUP-VELOCITY DISPERSION; PHASE-CONTRAST; LUMINOUS ETHER; SPECTRUM; IDENTIFICATION; SPECTROSCOPY; COHERENCE;
D O I
10.1088/1361-6404/aa8192
中图分类号
G40 [教育学];
学科分类号
040101 ; 120403 ;
摘要
White or polychromatic light sources are vastly abundant in nature and lie in our most basic understanding of the theory of light, beginning from stars like our Sun and extending to every common household light bulb or street lamp. In this paper, I present concepts of white light interferometery using a common- path Sagnac interferometer, manifested in a straightforward laboratory experiment. I further show the use of this as a Fourier transform spectrometer while presenting a basic overview of the theoretical concepts and spectrum of different light sources obtained experimentally. This work, both experimentally and analytically, is suitable for upper-level undergraduate physics or engineering courses where electromagnetic theory and optics are discussed. The experiment and theory presents important deep concepts and aspects in modern optics and physics that every science student should acquire.
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