The Fabry-Perot Interferometer

History, Theory, Practice and Applications

M Vaughan

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781351410502
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Physics
• Index: Physics

The Fabry-Perot Interferometer: History, Theory, Practice and Applications presents an invaluable introduction to the Fabry-Perot interferometer, including a brief overview of its history, a look at its applications, and plenty of practical advice on how to use the instrument.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Series Editors’ Preface
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Historical Background
• 2 Basic Elements of Optical Spectroscopy
• 3 The Plane Fabry–Perot Interferometer
• 4 Practical Operation of Plane Fabry–Perot Interferometers
• 5 The Spherical Fabry–Perot Interferometer
• 6 Multiple and Multi-pass Interferometers
• 7 Applications to Atomic Spectroscopy
• 8 Applications to Astronomy and Astrophysics
• 9 Applications to Light Scattering Studies of Materials
• 10 Applications to Metrology, Optical Bistability, Velocimetry, Infrared, Sensors, Plasma Physics and Miscellaneous Devices
• Appendix 1 The first Fabry–Perot interferometer
• Appendix 2 Measurement of absolute sensitivity of photomultipliers and other experimental considerations
• Appendix 3 Fizeau and multiple-beam wedge fringes
• Appendix 4 The effect of finite aperture size (ray treatment)
• Appendix 5 Multiple and equivalent mirror calculations—the ‘two effective interfaces’ method
• Appendix 6 Fourier formulation of the instrumental function and its convolution with Gaussian and Lorentzian functions
• Appendix 7 Intra-cavity effects: light fields, sources and absorbers, dispersion
• Appendix 8 Evaluation of resolving power and étendue for a plane Fabry–Perot spectrometer—the luminosity-resolution product method
• Appendix 9 Voigt functions: properties and simple analysis
• Appendix 10 Fundamental limits to the precision of spectroscopic measurements—least uncertainty methods
• Appendix 11 Construction and testing of spacers for Fabry–Perot étalons
• Appendix 12 Piezoelectric materials and transducers
• Appendix 13 Operation of the deformable parallelogram
• Appendix 14 Computer control and analysis
• Appendix 15 A control system for laser scattering spectroscopy
• Appendix 16 Interferometers for single-frequency operation of gas lasers
• Appendix 17 Modes in Cartesian and cylindrical coordinates
• Appendix 18 Gaussian beam propagation
• Appendix 19 Use of retroreflecting prisms in multi-pass operation
• Appendix 20 Channel spectra for continuum and absorption line studies
• References and Further Reading
• Index