Jamin interferometer
Interferómetro de Jamin
- Date
- 1856 · confidence high
- Place
- Paris, Île-de-France, France
- Credited to
- Jules Jamin
- Field
- Communication
What it is
The Jamin interferometer is an optical instrument that, using two thick glass mirrors, splits a light beam into two parallel displaced rays to produce interference, a precursor of later interferometers such as the Mach-Zehnder.
What it led to
- development of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer
- precise measurement of refractive indices of gases and liquids
- advances in 19th-century experimental optics
- applications in precision refractometry