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WHITE-LIGHT superposition fringes have found a number of applications in the past. They are of two kinds—fringes of equal inclination and of equal thickness. Extensive use of the former has been made, first in Brewster fringes, later in the Jamin interferometer ; then in 1898 Fabry and Buisson first used multiple-beams, ultimately adopting the fringes for their classical evaluation of the metre. A more recent application has been made by Sears and Barrell in determining the refractive index of air.
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TOLANSKY, S. A New Application of White-Light Superposition Fringes. Nature 163, 637 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163637a0
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