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
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- Cyclic interferometer
- Diffraction-grating interferometer
- Double-slit interferometer
- Dual-polarization interferometry
- Fabry–Pérot interferometer
- Fizeau interferometer
- Fourier-transform interferometer
- Fresnel interferometer
- Fringes of Equal Chromatic Order interferometer
- Gabor hologram
- Gires–Tournois etalon
- Heterodyne interferometer
- Holographic interferometer
- Jamin interferometer
- Laser Doppler vibrometer
- Linnik interferometer
- LUPI variant of Michelson
- Lummer–Gehrcke interferometer
- Mach–Zehnder interferometer
- Martin–Puplett interferometer
- Michelson interferometer
- Mirau interferometer
- Moiré interferometer
- Multi-beam interferometer
- Near-field interferometer
- Newton interferometer
- Nomarski interferometer
- Nonlinear Michelson interferometer / Step-phase Michelson interferometer
- N-slit interferometer
- Phase-shifting interferometer
- Planar lightwave circuit interferometer
- Photon Doppler velocimeter interferometer
- Polarization interferometer
- Point diffraction interferometer
- Rayleigh interferometer
- Sagnac interferometer
- Schlieren interferometer
- Shearing interferometer
- Twyman–Green interferometer
- Talbot–Lau interferometer
- Watson interferometer
- White-light interferometer
- White-light scatterplate interferometer
- Young's double-slit interferometer
- Zernike phase-contrast microscopy
- ZWF interferometer
Intensity and nonlinear interferometers
- intensity interferometer
- intensity optical correlator
- frequency-resolved optical gating
- Spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction
Quantum optics interferometers
- Hong–Ou–Mandel interferometer
- Franson interferometer
- Hanbury–Brown Twiss interferometer
- Polariton interferometer