TUTORIALS

 

INTERFEROMETRY


 
 

MEASURING TRANSMITTANCE


 


 

MEASURING REFLECTANCE
 

How Phase Interferometers Work

What does Tip/Tilt do?

Vertical? or Horizontal? Interferometer

Why Grazing Incidence Interferometry?

How Grazing Incidence works

Flatness and Roughness 
Can a surface be both flat and rough?

Measuring Spherical Surfaces

Advantages of Dual Wavelength Interferometers

Fringe Interpretation

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Types of Transmissometers

Measuring Transmittance of Sample Coupons

Transmittance of Moving Web

Transmittance in High Vacuum

Transmittance at Specific Wavelength

Transmittance Standards

Transmissometer or Densitometer?
 

Types of Reflectometers

Measuring Reflectance at normal incidence

Reflectance at non-normal incidence

Measuring Diffuse Reflectance

Reflectance at Specific Wavelengths

Measuring Absolute Reflectance

Reflectance Standards

 
These tutorials are intended to provide basic information about how measurements are made with interferometers, transmissometers and reflectometers.  They are not purported to be thorough mathematical analyses since there are plenty of excellent tutorials on the internet which do that very well.  We just want to explain some of the little terms and factors that individuals new to the technology might find confusing. 

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