Interference fringes

Interference rings is a generic term for various phenomena in optics in which ring-shaped structures of different intensity or color occur due to interference (physics) .

• Newton's rings occur with point light sources on media of different thicknesses.
• Haidinger rings occur in planar light sources on plane-parallel plates.
• On the Michelson interferometer , interference rings occur due to the geometry.

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