By use of wavelengths of 4 cm, complete demonstrations in microwave optics were mounted on boards the size of a sheet of writing paper. For lecture demonstrations they were constructed on Plexiglass plates above the 10-in.-sq. glass platform of an overhead projector. Detailed descriptions of the constructions were made for Lloyd's mirror, Michelson's interferometer and a grid-detection interferometer.

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