A new interferometer suitable for the vacuum ultraviolet.
We describe an interferometer suitable for the vacuum uv region of the spectrum. The device uses grazing incidence reflections between two plane parallel mirrors to obtain a set of coherent beams which interfere in the exit plane of the interferometer. The theory presented shows the shapes of the fringes which under certain conditions have a higher finesse than Fabry-Perot fringes.
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