The construction of a student-laboratory, Fabry-Perot interferometer is described, together with its use in three experiments. The first is a basic experiment for making some optical measurements. The second uses the interferometer to measure the index of refraction of a gas, and the third uses it to observe the Zeeman effect.
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1962
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