English Explanatory Dictionary

Mach-Zehnder interferometer

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A device used to determine the relative phase shift variations between two collimated beams derived by splitting light from a single source.

Word forms

Mach-Zehnder interferometer Mach-Zehnder interferometers

Etymology

Named after the physicists Ludwig Mach (who refined the idea) and Ludwig Zehnder (who proposed it in 1891).

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