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Mach-Zehnder interferometer

Mach-Zehnder interferometer noun: a device used to determine the relative phase shift variations between two collimated beams derived by splitting light from a single source.

Noun

Mach-Zehnder interferometer (plural Mach-Zehnder interferometers)

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

Forms of Mach-Zehnder interferometer

pluralMach-Zehnder interferometers

Origin of Mach-Zehnder interferometer

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

Questions about Mach-Zehnder interferometer

What does Mach-Zehnder interferometer mean?
Mach-Zehnder interferometer means a device used to determine the relative phase shift variations between two collimated beams derived by splitting light from a single source.
What part of speech is Mach-Zehnder interferometer?
Mach-Zehnder interferometer is a noun.
What is the plural of Mach-Zehnder interferometer?
The plural of Mach-Zehnder interferometer is Mach-Zehnder interferometers.

Words near Mach-Zehnder interferometer in the dictionary

  1. Mach tucks
  2. Mach wave
  3. Mach waves
  4. Mach's conjecture
  5. Mach's principle
  6. Mach-Zehnder interferometer
  7. Mach-Zehnder interferometers
  8. mach.
  9. macha
  10. Machabee
  11. Machabees

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