Great animation! I'm trying to understand interferometry, particularly what a difference in optical path length (i.e. a difference in phase of the beams) leads to fringe patterns. Your animation goes with my intuition, that a change in phase would result in a dimming of the beam, but many types of interferometry rely on the generation of fringe patterns. Do you have an explanation for what causes fringes instead of a dimming of the beam?
Great animation! I'm trying to understand interferometry, particularly what a difference in optical path length (i.e. a difference in phase of the beams) leads to fringe patterns. Your animation goes with my intuition, that a change in phase would result in a dimming of the beam, but many types of interferometry rely on the generation of fringe patterns. Do you have an explanation for what causes fringes instead of a dimming of the beam?
That's Awesome..👍
So what can we find out from this newly formed electromagnetic wave? Just canges of gravitational field?