1. Optical Interference
... source shows the bright and dark fringes clearly (without the colourful pattern). As a beam passes through the lens, light on the lower surface of the lens is partially reflected (shown a beam A in diagram 1) but also partially transmitted. The transmitted part is then partially reflected at the ... the wavelength of the Sodium lamp light, 589.3nm, and n is the ring number (1 for the first bright fringe after the centre). If the lens has curvature r0 then, Hence, [3] Substitution of [1] & [2] into [3] gives, for bright fringes [4] for dark fringes [5] where tn is the radius of the fring...
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