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An Ultra-Rapid Scanning Fabry–Perot Interferometer

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IT is well known that the profile of a spectral line may be time-resolved by an arrangement in which light is passed normally through a Fabry–Perot etalon, the spacing of which is varied in time, while a photomultiplier looks at the central fringe of the circular (Haidinger) pattern.

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COOPER, J., GREIG, J. An Ultra-Rapid Scanning Fabry–Perot Interferometer. Nature 195, 371–372 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/195371a0

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