| | Fabry-Perot Interferometer |
 | | In the Fabry - Perot interferometer, the multiple beam interference fringes from a plane parallel plate illuminated near normal incidance are used. |
 | | Until the development of all-dielectric multi-layer reflection coatings, which have low light-loss coefficients, the Fabry - Perot interferometer had very little application to the spectrometry of faint light sources, although it was used by Fabry and Buisson as early as 1911 on the relatively bright Orion nebula, though with lossy metallic layers. |
 | | In this way, Fabry and Perot were able to observe directly the fine structure of spectral lines which Michelson could only infer, and the Fabry-Perot interferometer has since played a dominant role in this branch of spectroscopy. |
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