List of types of interferometers

An interferometer is a device for extracting information from the superposition of multiple waves.

## Contents

* 1 Field and linear interferometers
* 2 Intensity and nonlinear interferometers
* 3 Quantum optics interferometers
* 4 Interferometers outside optics
* 5 See also

## Field and linear interferometers

* Air-wedge shearing interferometer
* Astronomical interferometer / Michelson stellar interferometer
* Classical interference microscopy
* Bath interferometer (common path)
* Cyclic interferometer
* Diffraction-grating interferometer (white light)
* Double-slit interferometer
* Dual-polarization interferometry
* Fabry–Pérot interferometer
* Fizeau interferometer
* Fourier-transform interferometer
* Fresnel interferometer (e.g. Fresnel biprism, Fresnel mirror or Lloyd's mirror)
* Fringes of Equal Chromatic Order interferometer (FECO)
* Gabor hologram
* Gires–Tournois etalon
* Heterodyne interferometer (see heterodyne)
* Holographic interferometer
* Jamin interferometer
* Laser Doppler vibrometer
* Linnik interferometer (microscopy)
* LUPI variant of Michelson
* Lummer–Gehrcke interferometer
* Mach–Zehnder interferometer
* Martin–Puplett interferometer
* Michelson interferometer
* Mirau interferometer (also known as a Mirau objective) (microscopy)
* Moiré interferometer (see moiré pattern)
* Multi-beam interferometer (microscopy)
* Near-field interferometer
* Newton interferometer (see Newton's rings)
* Nomarski interferometer
* Nonlinear Michelson interferometer / Step-phase Michelson interferometer
* N-slit interferometer
* Phase-shifting interferometer
* Planar lightwave circuit interferometer (PLC)
* Photon Doppler velocimeter interferometer (PDV)
* Polarization interferometer (see also Babinet–Soleil compensator)
* Point diffraction interferometer
* Rayleigh interferometer
* Sagnac interferometer
* Schlieren interferometer (phase-shifting)
* Shearing interferometer (lateral and radial)
* Twyman–Green interferometer
* Talbot–Lau interferometer
* Watson interferometer (microscopy)
* White-light interferometer (see also Optical coherence tomography, White light interferometry, and Coherence Scanning Interferometry)
* White-light scatterplate interferometer (white-light) (microscopy)
* Young's double-slit interferometer
* Zernike phase-contrast microscopy
* ZWF interferometer (microscopy)(see https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.55.7.074110)

## Intensity and nonlinear interferometers

* intensity interferometer
* intensity optical correlator
* frequency-resolved optical gating (FROG)
* Spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction (SPIDER)

## Quantum optics interferometers

* Hong–Ou–Mandel interferometer (HOM) (see Hong–Ou–Mandel effect)
* Franson interferometer
* Hanbury–Brown Twiss interferometer
* Polariton interferometer

## Interferometers outside optics

* Acoustic interferometer
* Atom interferometer
* Neutron interferometer
* Ramsey interferometer
* Mini grail interferometer
* Aharonov–Bohm effect
* Interferometric synthetic-aperture radar (a radar-based 3-d surface mapping)
* Superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs)
* White–Juday warp-field interferometer

## See also

* Atacama Large Millimeter Array

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